How To Use holier-than-thou In A Sentence
- In recent years, social psychologists have begun to study what they call the holier-than-thou effect. Skeptigator
- I didn't want to appear like a holier-than-thou fuddy-duddy so I made pleasant small talk with Tonya's date as though I approved of these sort of shenanigans.
- I can't stand his holier-than-thou attitude.
- What Tuilagi did to Ashton at Welford Road, a modern sporting equivalent of the Elizabethan bear garden, was not to be recommended, especially in an age of high-definition slow-mo replays, multiple camera angles and holier-than-thou hypocrisy masquerading as informed punditry. The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed
- Rather than face the facts and argue logically with the opposition, you just muscle in and grab the ultimate holier-than-thou slogan which automatically places anyone who dares disagree with you on the side of Satan.
- I don't understand the holier-than-thou attitude from someone who has always seemed very level-headed and calm.
- And I again insist that to re-establish a strong conception of duty, it is not enough to preach from a holier-than-thou position.
- I had not been able to stand his put-downs and holier-than-thou attitude.
- A simple test of the big ego is the inability to take a joke, inability to take criticism, seeing everything as an insult to one's respect or "face" which must be protected at all costs (status game), every idea is to be taken very seriously and a profound dissatisfaction is felt and expressed when reality is unwilling to cooperate, either the lack of self-criticism (everything is the fault of others or society) or the opposite extreme, self-flagellation, which is just basically another kind of big-ego game, the holier-than-thou one, and an inability to see other people as anything else but the object of one's desires or an obstacle to them. Armed and Dangerous
- Don't give me your sanctimonious, holier-than-thou speech about drinking.
