Sample Sentences for
self-righteous
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    Your self-righteous arrogance will be the end of everything.  (source)
    self-righteous = belief in personal moral superiority over others
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    Piss on the beards of all those self-righteous monkeys.  (source)
    self-righteous = believing themselves morally superior to others
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    They were all so dreadfully self-righteous.  (source)
    self-righteous = convinced of personal moral superiority over others
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    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)
    self-righteous = belief in personal moral superiority over others
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    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.
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    (Sincerely, but also self-righteously) Now that's your money†  (source)
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    Self-righteous smug old hypocrite.  (source)
    Self-righteous = convinced of personal moral superiority
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    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
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    Boris blinked, a bit self-righteously.†  (source)
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    He was, and is yet most likely, the wearisomest self-righteous Pharisee that ever ransacked a Bible to rake the promises to himself and fling the curses to his neighbours.  (source)
    self-righteous = convinced of personal moral superiority over others
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    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)
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    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)
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    I could be so self-righteous, so inflexible when I thought that I was right or that the children had been wronged.  (source)
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