Wednesday, April 18, 2012

They Know Better Than You

Or so they think. Here are a few words regarding such people:

sanctimonious: making a pretense of piety or righteousness [some religious charlatans]

pietist: someone who is affectedly or exaggeratedly pious [see above]

Babbitt: a member of the American middle class whose attachment to its ideals is such as to make of him a model of narrow-mindedness and self-satisfaction. Used disparagingly. [After the main character in Sinclair Lewis's novel Babbitt.]

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