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holier-than-thouadjective disapprovinghaving or showing the annoying attitude of people who believe that they are morally better than other peoplea holier-than-thou attitude self-righteousassured, biggety(or biggity, Southern & Midland), bigheaded, complacent, conceited, consequential, egoistic(also egoistical), egotistic(or egotistical), important, overweening, pompous, prideful, proud, self-conceited, self-important, self-opinionated, self-satisfied, smug, stuck-up, swellheaded, vain, vaingloriousdidactic, homiletic(or homiletical), moralistic, moralizing, preachy, sententiousadmonishing, admonitory, cautionarydogmatic(also dogmatical), prescriptivehighfalutin(also hifalutin), pretentiousblusterous, blustery, boastful, bombastic, braggart, bragging, braggy, cocky, swaggeringarrogant, assumptive, bumptious, cavalier, chesty, disdainful, fastuous, haughty, high-and-mighty, high-hat, huffy, lofty, lordly, masterful, peremptory, pontifical, self-asserting, self-assertive, snobbish, snobby, snooty, supercilious, superior, toplofty(also toploftical), uppish, uppitydomineering, high-handed, imperiousoverconfident, presuming, presumptuousconfident, self-assured, self-confidentself-adulatory, self-congratulatory, self-contented, self-gratulatoryself-applauding, self-dramatizing, self-glorifying, self-promotingself-affected, self-centered, self-engrossed, selfishcondescending, patronizing diffident, self-critical, self-distrustful, self-doubting, self-reproachful, self-reprovingmeek, timid, unassertivedown-to-earth, unarrogant, unassuming, unpretentiousbashful, demure, introverted, mousy(or mousey), overmodest, retiring, sheepish, shrinking, shyegoless, humble, modest, uncomplacent in 1859 |