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self-righteous
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  • Piss on the beards of all those self-righteous monkeys.  (source)
  • Your self-righteous arrogance will be the end of everything.  (source)
    self-righteous = belief in personal moral superiority over others
  • And then there was this self-righteous look on her face, for clearly she had taken up Daddy's burden of injustice, and she shouldered it with a sense of injured virtue.  (source)
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  • They were all so dreadfully self-righteous.  (source)
    self-righteous = convinced of personal moral superiority over others
  • But today, our self-righteousness, our fear, and our anger have caused even the Christians to hurl stones at the people who fall down, even when we know we should forgive or show compassion.  (source)
    self-righteousness = belief in morally superiority over others
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
  • Boris blinked, a bit self-righteously.†  (source)
    self-righteously = in the manner of someone who believes oneself morally superior to others
  • ...he was Salem-born-and-bred, a Harvard graduate, proud, opinionated, self-righteous, and utterly humorless.  (source)
    self-righteous = believing oneself morally superior to others
  • The sealed world in which he lives would be broken, and the fear, hatred, and self-righteousness on which his morale depends might evaporate.  (source)
    self-righteousness = belief of personal moral superiority
  • The owner of the Pontiac is honking self-righteously, but there's no way he can chase her down because traffic is totally stopped, Y.T. is the only thing for miles around that is actually capable of movement.†  (source)
    self-righteously = in the manner of someone who believes oneself morally superior to others
  • I could be so self-righteous, so inflexible when I thought that I was right or that the children had been wronged.  (source)
    self-righteous = convinced of personal moral superiority over others
  • With the O.C. Bible, C.E.T. presented the Liturgical Manual and the Commentaries — in many respects a more remarkable work, not only because of its brevity (less than half the size of the O.C. Bible), but also because of its candor and blend of self-pity and self-righteousness.†  (source)
    self-righteousness = the quality of believing oneself morally superior to others
  • (Sincerely, but also self-righteously) Now that's your money†  (source)
    self-righteously = in the manner of someone who believes oneself morally superior to others
  • Self-righteous smug old hypocrite.  (source)
    Self-righteous = convinced of personal moral superiority
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