pietistical

adj 1: of or relating to Pietism; "the Pietistic movement" [syn: {pietistic}]

2: excessively or hypocritically pious; "a sickening

sanctimonious smile" [syn: {holier-than-thou}, {pietistic},

{pharisaic}, {pharisaical}, {sanctimonious}, {self-righteous}]

nastistical

A description of a method, thought by

the programmer to be correct statistics, but which is not. An

example is averaging together several averages of samples of

different sizes. The correct way to do this is to average

together all of the individual samples.

(1997-02-12)