How To Use Holier-than-thou In A Sentence
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In recent years, social psychologists have begun to study what they call the holier-than-thou effect.
Skeptigator
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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.
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I can't stand his holier-than-thou attitude.
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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.
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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.
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I don't understand the holier-than-thou attitude from someone who has always seemed very level-headed and calm.
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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.
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I had not been able to stand his put-downs and holier-than-thou attitude.
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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
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Don't give me your sanctimonious, holier-than-thou speech about drinking.
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Slightly sheepish in responding to questions over being a regular church-goer, Tom is keen to avoid being presented as a holier-than-thou type.
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What's with the holier-than-thou attitude anyway… don't tell me you have not broken a dozen or two traffic rules?
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Not only is he arrogant, by his own admission, but also ignorant (as in rude) and insulting with his self-opinionated, holier-than-thou, stance
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Unfortunately this discussion is always led by a holier-than-thou media: by media commentators who actually view themselves as being separate from politics.
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It certainly will stop all that sanctimonious, self-righteous, holier-than-thou blather from the neo-con "christian" right-wing bible thumpers!
Bennett: Sanford needs to stop 'embarrassing himself'
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He suddenly turned holier-than-thou to give them a serve.
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With that and a holier-than-thou twitch of one eyebrow, I was out the door.
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Someone who comes off as arrogant and cops a holier-than-thou attitude should be booed.
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I don't want to adopt a holier-than-thou attitude on this, because I have at times been as much at fault as other writers.
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Sec 5 POA is what in your words “causes them to go all holier-than-thou and issue cautions all over the place?” or do you mean Cautions as in a CJ outcome? or maybe the caution before arrest? or did you mean ‘warning’ instead of caution? warning as in Sec 5 POA?
Police Use Naughty Word *SHOCK* « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
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Offense by proxy is a perverse form of holier-than-thou one-upmanship.
Purple Pain « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
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These holier-than-thou guardians of free speech are practically creaming with self-righteous glee as they publicly lynch this young woman for saying something dreadfully stupid that she undoubtedly deeply regrets.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Judging a Person Based on a Single Forwarded Personal E-Mail
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We do not want to watch his ‘out of control’ yet suspiciously manipulative antics nor listen to his condescending, holier-than-thou judgments.
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So, the cleanest, most ethical holier-than-thou Congress ever is now defending the unprecedented adoption of ram-down rules for a radical, multitrillion-dollar program to usurp one-seventh of the economy on the grounds of “two wrongs make it right”?
Matthew Yglesias » Endgame
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So don't give me this high and mighty, holier-than-thou attitude about the special interests flooding the political marketplace.
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Perhaps it was the churchy atmosphere, the Puritan holier-than-thou image, not that Mike seemed to have that kind of image.
HIDING FROM THE LIGHT
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When defining tourism as 'eco' or 'sustainable' or 'responsible' practitioners often envelop themselves in a holier-than-thou attitude, but it doesn't have to be this way.
Tourism as The White Man�s Burden
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Perhaps that is why this holier-than-thou hoochie seeks the psychic matchmaking advice of a monstrous drag queen.
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If there’s a certain holier-than-thou purity to my sentiments, it’s true.
Prizes? We Don’t Need No Stinking Prizes! : Kenneth Goldsmith : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
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This self-righteousness, this bilious holier-than-thou attitude not only amazes me, it saddens me quite a bit too.
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The group's success led to national media attention, but also provoked animosity, as some accused it of a collective holier-than-thou attitude.
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Mr. Anderson was also bugged by what he describes as the holier-than-thou attitude typified by Critical Mass, a monthly gathering of bikers who coast through the city, snarling traffic for hours.
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Penn has proved to be the most talented of the bunch, although one can tire of his holier-than-thou attitude to script selection.
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This is about people and their holier-than-thou attitudes when it comes to picking and choosing their specific little tirades against humanity.
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So hopefully this doesn’t sound like nagging from a holier-than-thou senior editor …
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Perhaps it was the churchy atmosphere, the Puritan holier-than-thou image, not that Mike seemed to have that kind of image.
HIDING FROM THE LIGHT
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Something has gone seriously wrong with Democratic ideology, which seems to have become a candied set of holier-than-thou bromides attached like tutti-frutti to a quivering green Jell-O mold of adolescent sentimentality.
Camille Paglia, still a big Obama supporter, loves Sarah and Todd as "powerful new symbols of a revived contemporary feminism."
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But I get frustrated at the holier-than-thou attitude some of the anti-paper crowd tends to take, as if those of us who are sticking to paper are wantonly killing trees with every book with purchase in hard copy.
Books, Ebooks and the Environment « Tales from the Reading Room
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You really should do something about this holier-than-thou iconoclasm.
No burka ban in Canada « Anglican Samizdat
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Since their earliest days, some of the hipper and holier-than-thou critics in New York have dismissed Blonde Redhead (named after a song by NYC's No Wave Gods' DNA, fact fans) as a mere bunch of Sonic Youth copyists.
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Don't give me your sanctimonious, holier-than-thou speech about drinking.
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Nor are we holier-than-thou aesthetes who can't manage more than a half lager without being sick in the taxi.