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Sanctimonious, self-righteously, or hypocritically pious

Having too high an opinion of one's own worth

Overbearing in a critical and exhorting manner, tending to lecture or hector

Adjective

Sanctimonious, self-righteously, or hypocritically pious

schoolmistressy

to keep up appearances

too good to be true

for form's sake

stick-in-the-mud

politically correct

prim and proper

goody two-shoes

of the old school

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“I don't understand the holier-than-thou attitude from someone who has always seemed very level-headed and calm.”

Adjective

Having too high an opinion of one's own worth

high-and-mighty

self-applauding

self-centred^UK

self-centered^US

self-complacent

self-congratulatory

self-dramatizing

self-flattering

self-glorifying

self-gratulatory

self-opinionated

too big for your boots

too big for your breeches

full of oneself

high and mighty

pleased with oneself

proud of oneself

full of yourself

stuck on oneself

individualistic

wrapped up in oneself

self-interested

self-preoccupied

self-infatuated

on your high horse

self-aggrandizing

pleased with yourself

too big for your britches

full of hot air

putting on airs

uncommunicative

full of contempt

in love with oneself

think too highly of oneself

think a lot of oneself

have an excessively high opinion of oneself

blowing one's own horn

turning up your nose at

looking down your nose at

sure of yourself

on a high horse

nose in the air

self-respecting

offensively self-assertive

throwing one's weight around

think one is the cat's whiskers

think one is God's gift

think one is the cat's pyjamas

swollen with pride

undemonstrative

self-sufficient

having a swelled head

wrapped up with oneself

like the cat that swallowed the canary

uncompanionable

proud of yourself

flushed with success

I'm all right, Jack

like a cat that has swallowed the canary

like the cat that's got the cream

self-aggrandising

keeping people at arm's length

looking after number one

uncomplimentary

blowing one's own trumpet

resting on your laurels

like the cat that got the cream

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Adjective

Overbearing in a critical and exhorting manner, tending to lecture or hector

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