holier-than-thou

holier-than-thou englannista suomeksi

1. omahyväinen

1. hurskasteleva

holier-than-thou englanniksi

1. Hypocritically or self-righteously pious; sanctimonious.

(synonyms)

2. (quote-journal)|date=21 May 1874|volume=XI|number=21|page=421|pageurl=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433003018334&view=1up&seq=75|oclc=1013350817|passage=There 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, ...|brackets=on

3. (quote-journal)|date=18 November 1887|year_published=1888|volume=9|number=5|page=107|pageurl=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uiuo.ark:/13960/t3127687q&view=1up&seq=93|column=1|issn=0199-9931|oclc=555203122|passage=(mythology)|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.

4. (quote-book)

5. (quote-book)|series=Papers of the Presidents|Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States|location=Washington, D.C.|publisher=(w), (w); States Government Publishing Office|United States Government Printing Office|date=29 March 1952|year_published=1966|page=225|pageurl=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uiug.30112005184103&view=1up&seq=271|column=1|oclc=68945752|passage=I don't think the "black is white" campaign of the Republican Party is going to succeed. I think the voters are going to see through this holier-than-thou disguise that our Republican friends are putting on.

6. (quote-hansard)

7. (quote-book), (w); States Government Publishing Office|United States Government Printing Office|date=8 July 1991|year_published=1992|volume_plain=book II|page=835|pageurl=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uiug.30112005184632&view=1up&seq=49|column=2|oclc=617162659|passage=The Soviet economy is hurting now, and I say that not holier-than-thou, but it is; factually, the Soviet economy is in bad shape.

8. (quote-book) and the Politics of Austria|series=Central European Studies|location=West Lafayette, Ind.|publisher=Purdue University Press|year=2003|page=121|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=qrsgaVfsUKAC&pg=PA121|isbn=978-1-55753-230-5|passage=Whether you see that as belated recognition of a collective shame (if not guilt) or as a "holier than thou" pharisaism, it was certainly made much simpler by the fact that the generation under discussion had started to fade from public life.

9. (quote-book)|location=Ind.|publisher=Xlibris|date=30 September 2014|pages=94–95|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=1dTLBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA94|isbn=978-1-4931-9251-9|passage=Everything connected with the care of children no matter how trivial has to be seen to be politically correct. This tends to create a "holier-than-thou" attitude, where if something even hints of being politically incorrect, then no matter how much ''fun'' it might be for the children, it will not take place.