holier

holier
a) ; more sacred.
b) ; more full of holes.

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  • Holier Than Thou — «Holier Than Thou» Canción de Metallica álbum Metallica Publicación 12 de agosto de 1991 Gra …   Wikipedia Español

  • holier-than-thou — adj. being excessively or hypocritically pious while condemning others as being less virtuous than oneself. Syn: pietistic, pietistical, pharisaic, pharisaical, sanctimonious, self righteous. [WordNet 1.5 +PJC] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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  • holier-than-thou — adj showing that you think you are morally better than other people used to show disapproval = ↑self righteous …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • holier-than-thou — as an adjectival phrase in reference to supercilious sanctimony attested by 1888, Amer.Eng. The text is in Isaiah lxv:5 …   Etymology dictionary

  • holier-than-thou — [adj] self righteously pious goody goody, high hat, judgmental, pietistic, sanctimonious, smug, snobbish, unctuous; concept 401 …   New thesaurus

  • holier-than-thou — ► ADJECTIVE ▪ offensively self righteous …   English terms dictionary

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