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Definition: Holier-than-thou |
Holier-than-thouAdjective1. Excessively or hypocritically pious; "a sickening sanctimonious smile". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: Holier-than-thouSynonyms: pharisaic (adj), pharisaical (adj), pietistic (adj), pietistical (adj), sanctimonious (adj), self-righteous (adj). (additional references) |
| "Holier-than-thou" is generally used as a pronoun (personal) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Holier-than-thou" is used about 15 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Pronoun (personal) | 100% | 15 | 90,616 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "holier-than-thou"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Czech | pokrytecký (hypocritical, sanctimonious, two faced), licomìrný (hypocritical), ješitný (conceited, stuck up, vain). (various references) | |
German | selbstgerecht (righteous, self righteous), selbstgefällig (complacent, gloating, gloatingly, priggish, self complacent, self-satisfied, smug, smugly). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | olier-than-thouhay.(various references) | |
Russian | ханжеский (canting, churchy, pious, sanctified, sanctimonious, self-righteous), лицемерный (canting, disingenuous, double dealing, hypocritical, insincere, left handed, pretended, sanctimonious, smoothfaced, smooth-faced). (various references) | |
Thai | เคร่งครั"เกินไป. (various references) | |
Turkish | tepeden bakan (haughty, high and mighty, high hat, self-righteous, snooty, supercilious), kibirli tip (swelled head), kibirli (arrogant, as proud as lucifer, assuming, bumptious, cavalier, conceited, consequential, disdainful, haughty, high-flown, hoity toity, hubristic, important, lofty, lordly, overweening, pontifical, proud, Sniffy, snooty, stiff necked, stuck up, stuffy, supercilious, superior, uppish, uppity, upstage, vain), kendini beğenmiş (arrogant, assuming, bighead, bigheaded, bumptious, cavalier, chesty, cocky, conceited, egotistical, haughty, high hat, high-flown, high-flying, hoity toity, hoity-toity, important, insufferable, jackanapes, jumped-up, mugwump, overweening, pompous, pretentious, prig, priggish, self sufficient, self-important, self-opinionated, self-righteous, smug, Sniffy, snooty, snotty, stuck up, stuffed shirt, stuffy, supercilious, swelled head, swollen-headed, taffy-nosed, toffee-nosed, toffy-nosed, uppish, uppity, upstage, vain). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-h-h-h-i-l-n-o-o-r-t-t-u" | |
-3 letters: holothurian. | |
-4 letters: toleration. | |
-5 letters: anorthite, natrolite, outlearnt, triathlon, ultrathin. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage Frequency 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Anagrams 6. Bibliography |
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