Definitions
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- adjective
comparative form ofholy : moreholy ; more sacred. - adjective
comparative form ofholey : moreholey ; more full of holes.
Etymologies
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Examples
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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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In recent years, social psychologists have begun to study what they call the holier-than-thou effect.
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Do you think these irrelevant standards are applied any where other than in "holier than thou" America?
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CHETRY: Well, we've all heard the phrase holier than thou but how hard is it to live exactly the way the bible says you should?
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There was room in its wide expanse for the gathering of a household about the fire; its embrace was the embrace of love; and it was the type and model of those venerable and hallowed places which have given to the English language a word holier even than "Home," since that word is "Hearth."
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So Monday I go to the Registro Publico with my documents and my real estate attorney to pay the transfer taxes get my escrituras without the high falutin ', holier than thou Notario Tramposo.
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So Monday I go to the Registro Publico with my documents and my real estate attorney to pay the transfer taxes get my escrituras without the high falutin ', holier than thou Notario Tramposo.
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If there’s a certain holier-than-thou purity to my sentiments, it’s true.
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There is no voice transcending the sounds of war, and there must not be such a voice -- nor is there any call holier than the call to war.
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The nearer they brought him to a disembodied spirit by meagre diet, the holier should be his prayers in their behalf.
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