| 单词 | holier-than-thou |
| 释义 | > as lemmasholier-than-thou 5. Comparative holier in colloquial phrase holier-than-thou: characterized by an attitude of superior sanctity. Cf. Isaiah 65:5. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > piety > sanctimoniousness > [adjective] pope-holya1387 Pharisaical1527 as holy (also as sick, as strong) as a horse1530 hypocritish1531 hypocritic1540 hypocritely1541 hypocritical1553 horse-holy?1589 sanctified1604 Pharisee-like1611 sanctimoniousa1616 Pharisaica1618 lip-holy1624 Bible-bearing1625 canting1663 unctuous1742 pietistical1753 pietical1782 goody-goody1785 goody1808 Sunday school1817 Pecksniffian1844 goodyish1848 goody-good1851 devil-dodging?1861 pietic1865 mawwormish1883 pietistic1884 mawwormy1885 pi1891 pietose1893 holier-than-thou1912 antimacassar1913 holy1958 1912 T. Dreiser Financier lxvi. 684 The ‘holier than thou’ attitude, intentional or otherwise, is quite the last and most deadly offense within prison walls. 1918 Maclean's Jan. 45/1 His holier-than-thou attitude irritates the officials. 1922 S. Lewis Babbitt xix. 239 But I don't want you to think you can get away with any holier-than-thou stuff. 1928 F. Hurst President is Born xiii. 155 If the whole holier-than-thou house of Schuyler has got to be protected from me, dammit, I'm not going to do the protecting. 1957 R. Hoggart Uses of Literacy vi. 169 They counter-accuse their accusers of being ‘holier than thou’, of smugness, of ‘hypocrisy’. 1958 Listener 23 Oct. 660/1 She distrusted high flights of emotion, any parade of spiritual inclinations, any holier-than-thou attitudes. 1973 Listener 4 Jan. 9/3 The Mormons were not only holier-than-thou; they were thriftier. < as lemmas |
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