Significados de holier-than-thou en inglés

Neither was there any pharisaical self-exaltation on the part of the rival.

As Lord Brougham says, we have no right to give ourselves pharisaical airs.

Russell, he said, had spread broadcast phylacteries, and used his most pharisaical language.

Why should this pharisaical little bird make one feel a criminal?

They always were, from first to last, narrow, pedantic, one-sided, legal, technical, pharisaical.

All these things are full of pharisaic vanity.

Thus, then, my mother now, commanding that hideous deed with a mind at peace in pharisaic self-righteousness.

That's the way to inculcate a filthy pharisaic conceit into a child.-Ifthe child ill-treats the cat, say:

This largely resulted from the Pharisaic instinct that assumes superiority over other men.

A woman prefers one measure of frivolity to nine measures of Pharisaic sanctimoniousness.

After the usual amount of pietistic verbiage by way of introduction the Manifesto said:

They were connected in his memory with atrocious tedium, pietistic insincerity, and humiliating contacts.

He not only disliked, but openly ridiculed all signs of a special pietistic bearing.

Dr. Cumming's mind is evidently not of the pietistic order.

We can think of God's Kingdom and righteousness only in the light of the pietistic.

Here you see the end of a nation which shares your pietistical aptitudes.

I present extracts from the account of Cambronne, which he suspects may have given the pietistical Quakers a pain.

So it is with a pietistical and puristical people-theywill follow some stupid old bellwether because utterly incapable of independent thought, of individual ratiocination.

Everyone's out to prove a point in the most self-righteous way possible.

Feel free to leave indignant and self-righteous comments below-butno spoilers, please.

It was, of course, inappropriate, and there were shrieks of self-righteous anger.

He questions everything with vigor as a self-righteous anger smolders within him.

She always did her Jesus walk when she was feeling particularly self-righteous.