Similar words: other than, rather than, none other than, no other than, no fewer than, afterthought, greater than, no sooner than. Meaning: adj. excessively or hypocritically pious.
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1. I can't stand his holier-than-thou attitude.
2. She was intensely irritated by Emma's holier-than-thou attitude.
3. He has always sounded holier-than-thou.
4. It may lead to a dried-up, holier-than-thou sanctity which hides and protects the very egoism he sets out to kill.
5. Sharing about our past and current failures and giving praise to God for forgiveness will help us not to come across as "holier-than-thou" to people who don't yet know the Lord.
6. Susie Self-Righteous: Holier-than-thou attitude and judgmental of others, her favorite phrase is "Thank God, I'm not like you!"
7. It annoys me when Philip adopts that holier-than-thou expression with his sons; he forgets that he was just as bad as them when hew as their age.
8. No, the real Windsor villain is none other than the holier-than-thou Prince Philip.
9. I know he doesn't smoke or drink but I wish he wasn't so holier-than-thou.
10. After such circumstances, it was much harder for subsequent German governments to act in a holier-than-thou fashion toward any other member with economic woes.
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11. Some of my best friends are vegetarians, but even they have a tendency to be a little on the holier-than-thou side.
12. What I find most abominable in our politicians is that, even when their hands are stained with blood, they invariably adopt a holier-than-thou attitude.
13. I think they will surpass us unless we get off our "self-righteous, holier-than-thou attitudes" about our place in the world.
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