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Definition of churchy in English: churchyadjectivechurchier, churchiest ˈtʃəːtʃiˈtʃərtʃi 1(of a person) excessively pious and often narrow-minded. （人）恪守教义教会仪式的；思想褊狭的，不容异端的 I was famous for being churchy and stuck-up she moves home to live with her churchy, well-to-do parents Example sentencesExamples - My stepfather has apparently gone a bit churchy in his old age.
- O'Brien told him that he was often accused of being too churchy, and that he had really tried with his sermon that night.
- It is less churchy, less self-congratulatory and more open than another county - Cambridgeshire - that I know well.
- Vicar husband Pete is the great, great grandson of Arthur - but was born into the poor, churchy side of the family.
- I think the spiritual dimension of Australian writing, as Kevin Hart the poet said, ‘Is not churchy, but is nevertheless religious.’
- I thought that life with all these churchy people and all this faith stuff was going to be dull and boring.
- I suspect you are all well versed with the arguments, which pit us innocent wine drinkers against all those sanctimonious churchy types.
- Or maybe it was just another chance to make the Conservatives look silly-their churchy types predictably attacked him getting the post.
- The film is soon overtaken by a new mood towards the churchy authorities, and the uptight religious types are shown to be just as nice as unwed moms.
- The Stams were relatively relaxed Calvinists. ‘In our house we have a faith, but it's not that we were very strict and very churchy,’ says Stam.
- ‘I'm a free thinker, and you're so churchy,’ she says.
- It's a small car once owned by a pleasant churchy guy who later became pope.
- I was in a debate with a churchy coworker of mine about the bible and sinning and all that.
- But this is a small town as typical as anywhere else in the American heartland: earnest, churchy, amiable, inward-looking, bland, conformist, trusting.
- My family is extremely churchy and they're always praying for me.
- It sounds a bit churchy, but really, that's what we're about.
- Or am I going to simply become churchy and try to look good?
- There's nothing them churchy folk like better than a good funeral, when the world can say nice things about some dead old man that they don't really mean…
- I'll bet you thought this post was going to be churchy.
Synonyms self-righteous, holier-than-thou, pious, pietistic, moralizing, unctuous, smug, superior, priggish, mealy-mouthed, hypocritical, insincere, for form's sake, to keep up appearances 2Resembling a church. 似教堂的 Gothic design looks too churchy 哥特式设计看起来太像教堂建筑。 Example sentencesExamples - It still had stained glass windows and overlooked the churchy bit proper.
- Thus, These are the Ghosts is unquestionably trad, but soaked in a churchy eeriness that befits its title.
- Even the light of the Guggenheim is transformed, its walls blackened and its radiance dimmed to churchy darkness.
- The converted bell chamber is huge, with high churchy windows.
- The designer actually specializes in Contemporary Sacred Art, so… if you're in the market for something more churchy, why not visit his homepage, too?
- He does a good job of glueing the whole together with big, churchy organ chords and squelchy analogue synths.
- The sound quality of these CDs is excellent, though the ubiquitous churchy echo, doubtless judged atmospheric, is sometimes hard to take.
- The turbine hall's dimensions and proportions, the windows at each end and the choir-screen bridge that divides the nave space of the entrance from the space beyond, are churchy.
- The atmosphere was once more churchy, thanks in part to a collection for funds to pay the rent.
Synonyms priestly, ministerial, clerical, ecclesiastic, prelatic, canonical, parsonical, pastoral
Derivativesnoun ‘I want to spend most of my ministry in this diocese, not tied to the structures, the bureaucracy, the churchiness which can so easily quench the gospel message,’ he said. Example sentencesExamples - Hay puts the churchiness down to the type of people who wanted to get ahead, although the parsimoniousness of Hay the elder perhaps encouraged self-help.
- His discourse is saturated in churchiness.
- The Tories don't try to wrap themselves in toe-curling churchiness as the prime minister does.
Definition of churchy in US English: churchyadjectiveˈCHərCHēˈtʃərtʃi 1(of a person) excessively pious and consequently narrow-minded or intolerant. （人）恪守教义教会仪式的；思想褊狭的，不容异端的 Example sentencesExamples - Vicar husband Pete is the great, great grandson of Arthur - but was born into the poor, churchy side of the family.
- The Stams were relatively relaxed Calvinists. ‘In our house we have a faith, but it's not that we were very strict and very churchy,’ says Stam.
- I'll bet you thought this post was going to be churchy.
- O'Brien told him that he was often accused of being too churchy, and that he had really tried with his sermon that night.
- I think the spiritual dimension of Australian writing, as Kevin Hart the poet said, ‘Is not churchy, but is nevertheless religious.’
- There's nothing them churchy folk like better than a good funeral, when the world can say nice things about some dead old man that they don't really mean…
- Or maybe it was just another chance to make the Conservatives look silly-their churchy types predictably attacked him getting the post.
- But this is a small town as typical as anywhere else in the American heartland: earnest, churchy, amiable, inward-looking, bland, conformist, trusting.
- It is less churchy, less self-congratulatory and more open than another county - Cambridgeshire - that I know well.
- My family is extremely churchy and they're always praying for me.
- ‘I'm a free thinker, and you're so churchy,’ she says.
- I was in a debate with a churchy coworker of mine about the bible and sinning and all that.
- Or am I going to simply become churchy and try to look good?
- I thought that life with all these churchy people and all this faith stuff was going to be dull and boring.
- My stepfather has apparently gone a bit churchy in his old age.
- It sounds a bit churchy, but really, that's what we're about.
- The film is soon overtaken by a new mood towards the churchy authorities, and the uptight religious types are shown to be just as nice as unwed moms.
- It's a small car once owned by a pleasant churchy guy who later became pope.
- I suspect you are all well versed with the arguments, which pit us innocent wine drinkers against all those sanctimonious churchy types.
Synonyms self-righteous, holier-than-thou, pious, pietistic, moralizing, unctuous, smug, superior, priggish, mealy-mouthed, hypocritical, insincere, for form's sake, to keep up appearances 2Resembling a church. 似教堂的 Gothic design looks too churchy 哥特式设计看起来太像教堂建筑。 Example sentencesExamples - The designer actually specializes in Contemporary Sacred Art, so… if you're in the market for something more churchy, why not visit his homepage, too?
- The atmosphere was once more churchy, thanks in part to a collection for funds to pay the rent.
- The turbine hall's dimensions and proportions, the windows at each end and the choir-screen bridge that divides the nave space of the entrance from the space beyond, are churchy.
- Thus, These are the Ghosts is unquestionably trad, but soaked in a churchy eeriness that befits its title.
- The converted bell chamber is huge, with high churchy windows.
- Even the light of the Guggenheim is transformed, its walls blackened and its radiance dimmed to churchy darkness.
- The sound quality of these CDs is excellent, though the ubiquitous churchy echo, doubtless judged atmospheric, is sometimes hard to take.
- It still had stained glass windows and overlooked the churchy bit proper.
- He does a good job of glueing the whole together with big, churchy organ chords and squelchy analogue synths.
Synonyms priestly, ministerial, clerical, ecclesiastic, prelatic, canonical, parsonical, pastoral
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