I don't like his holier-than-thou attitude.
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Holier-than-thou
//ˈhəʊ.li.ə ðən ˈðaʊ//
Synonyms for "holier-than-thou" (98 found)
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20 translations across 10 languages.
Asturian
3 entries- musarañu adj (hypocritically or self-righteously pious)
- pamplineru adj (hypocritically or self-righteously pious)
- santeru adj (hypocritically or self-righteously pious)
Esperanto
1 entries- bigota adj (hypocritically or self-righteously pious)
Finnish
1 entries- hurskasteleva adj (hypocritically or self-righteously pious)
French
2 entries- benoît adj (hypocritically or self-righteously pious)
- bigot adj (hypocritically or self-righteously pious)
Hungarian
3 entries- pápább a pápánál adj (hypocritically or self-righteously pious)
- pápábbak a pápánál adj (hypocritically or self-righteously pious)
- szenteskedő adj (hypocritically or self-righteously pious)
Polish
2 entries- świętojebliwy adj (hypocritically or self-righteously pious)
- świętoszkowaty adj (hypocritically or self-righteously pious)
Portuguese
1 entries- santo do pau oco adj (hypocritically or self-righteously pious)
Russian
4 entries- благочестиво-лицемерный adj (hypocritically or self-righteously pious)
- лицемерный adj (hypocritically or self-righteously pious)
- самодовольный adj (hypocritically or self-righteously pious)
- самодовольный adj (hypocritically or self-righteously pious)
Spanish
2 entries- gazmoño adj (hypocritically or self-righteously pious)
- santurrón adj (hypocritically or self-righteously pious)
Swedish
1 entries- gudsnådelig adj (hypocritically or self-righteously pious)
Sample sentences
10 total sentences available.
[T]here are local jealousies and disunities which are not likely to be soothed by the patent fact that companies which most strenuously assert the I-am-holier-than-thou claim daily violate the rules by which they profess to be invariably governed, [...]
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Hippolytus is quite insufferable in his endless protestations of pity and purity. One tires of such abnormal goodness and wishes for a little natural depravity. He is a perfect type of the "holier than thou" individual whose secret heart is a very stagnation of egotism, selfishness and disregard for others' feelings.
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His garb is such as any gentleman might wear—a farmer, a thrifty mechanic, a teacher, or a plain business man—a brown slouch hat, any kind of a simple necktie, any kind of a coat except the unctuous holier-than-thou broadcloth with the front full of button holes.
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