Question 1

How do native speakers pronounce "holier than thou" in English?

Accepted Answer

In natural English speech, "holier than thou" appears in contexts such as: "I'm sure-- that in itself sets us apart. I don't think it makes us better or holier than thou. I think it just makes us very different, and it is something that is hard to grok sometimes that, yeah, OK, well, are you just like Droga5?". You can listen to the exact timestamped audio clip in the accompanying video.

Question 2

Where can I hear "holier than thou" used in a real sentence?

Accepted Answer

Our pronunciation database found 2 conversational video occurrences of "holier than thou" with real-time synchronized transcripts and full surrounding sentence context.

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