Sample Sentences forself-righteous (editor-reviewed)
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She is self-righteous, seeing minor flaws in her friends while ignorant of her own major shortcomings.self-righteous = convinced of personal moral superiority over others
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Both sides are too self-righteous to reach a friendly agreement.self-righteous = convinced of moral superiority over others
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"Those arrogant, self-righteous—" He stops and clears his throat. (source)self-righteous = believing themselves morally superior to others
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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 othersstandard 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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Boris blinked, a bit self-righteously.† (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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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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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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Head erect, her mouth pursed in mock self-righteousness.† (source)
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(Sincerely, but also self-righteously) Now that's your money† (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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