OXFORD 9000
📚 adj • entry_id 41116

holier-than-thou

/ˈhəʊ.li.ə ðən ˈðaʊ/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
gazmoño • santurrón
Hypocritically or self-righteously pious; sanctimonious; smugly morally superior.
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 typ…
[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…
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