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- My early years, darkened by the shadows and regional superstitions of a bona fide cracker boy, act as a sobering agent during the execrable periods of self-righteousness that I inflict on those around me.†
p. 6.2self-righteousness = the quality of believing oneself morally superior to others
- That night I fired off a rather angry, self-righteous letter to Dr. Piedmont telling him that his cute little schoolhouse on Yamacraw was not worth a pound of cow dung.†
p. 39.5self-righteous = believing oneself morally superior to others
- National attention was focused on Beaufort, and her white citizens smoldered in self-righteous fury as more and more statistics were made available, proving the doctor to be correct.†
p. 143.9
- Together we were insufferable, pontifical, self-righteous voices of the Eucharist, pipelines to the Almighty.†
p. 148.3
- I began my second letter to Piedmont in prototypical Conrack style—self-righteous, angry, undiplomatic, unapologetic, and flaming.†
p. 190.8
- Dressed in green, insulated boots, and a torn red sweater, eyes afire with self-righteous piety and wrath, I wrote Piedmont a letter with his epigram "I deal in truth" lighting my path.†
p. 191.2
- The doctor felt much too self-righteous to sneer.†
p. 284.1
- I could be so self-righteous, so inflexible when I thought that I was right or that the children had been wronged.
p. 289.4 *self-righteous = convinced of personal moral superiority over others
Definitions:
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(1)
(self-righteous) believing oneself morally superior to others -- especially in an annoying manner
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)