Meaning of self-righteous | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Piously self-assured and smugly moralistic.
2. Patronizingly moralizing and rebuking.

Equivalents

Examples

“Near-synonyms: smug, complacent; sanctimonious”

“And is it not possible, Mr. Hier, that people are reacting (in a contemptible way, certainly) against your self-righteous bawling?”

““God's blood, Thomas, self-righteous prickery is not the preserve of the English!””

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