Usage of "holier-than-thou"

Excessively or hypocritically pious.

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Uso de holier-than-thou em inglês

With lots of holier-than-thou charitable interests in this here dark continent, right? 
 Night of knives 

Didn't you hate me for my miserable holier-than-thou preachment that day, Wes? 
 Burned Bridges 

She would think about what she'd said without my holier-than-thou response. 
 A killing night 

It's not that much holier-than-thou in the plus-size fashion world either. 
 Feminist dot com 

With poise and high-paced energy, Church Clothes isn't preachy or holier-than-thou. 
 Ebony 

I knew that holier-than-thou attitude was nothing more than a sham. 
 Darkness revealed 

She was joined in this grotesque campaign by Imran Khan, the holier-than-thou cricketer-turned-politician. 
 The Guardian 

Even when I was a kid, I always thought she wasn't just holier-than-thou. 
 The blackstone chronicles 

You're making small-talk with some holier-than-thou stranger who sounds like Queen Lizzy herself. 
 News.com.au 

In the flat upstairs lives Deborah, played with perfect holier-than-thou-edness by Leslie Ash. 
 The Guardian 

This last chastisement wipes the smug, holier-than-thou look off his face. 
 The whore of babylon, a memoir 

And certainly not in favour of that holier-than-thou little cow, Melissa! 
 Hell to pay 

So don't be so damned holier-than-thou about a man like LePic. 
 In Enemy Hands 

These holier-than-thou types can't seem to accomplish anything without it. 
 Antiphon 

He also couldn't resist taking a holier-than-thou tone toward his tail-between-their-legs Tea Party foes. 
 The Irish Times 

He'd like to see any of the smart-mouthed nurses or holier-than-thou doctors top that. 
 Public secrets 

Significados de holier-than-thou em inglês