self-righteous

Speech parts

1. self-righteous - Adjective

2. self-righteous - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Righteous in one's own esteem; pharisaic.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

sanctimonious pharisaic pharisaical pietistic pietistical holier-than-thou goody pharisee superior noble godly affected moral entitled false
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Antonyms

blue understanding evil atheist humble immoral
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Examples

Joseph is the wearisomest and self-righteous Pharisee who ever ransacked the Bible to rake the promises to himself and fling the curses on his neighbor. Emily Brontë

It is silly to call fat people "gravitationally challenged”, a self-righteous fetishism of language which is no more than a symptom of political frustration. Terry Eagleton

The sooner we can separate salvageable skeptics from self-righteous absolutists, the sooner we can move along. Sheri S. Tepper

Honesty is the cruelest game of all, because not only can you hurt someone - and hurt them to the bone - you can feel self-righteous about it at the same time. Dave Van Ronk

We have a God-given commission, but it is not a commission to be self-righteous know-it-alls- quite the contrary. Our work in God's world begins with the acknowledgment that we are not God, and that our most bitter rivals are made in God's image. John Danforth

There's no one so self-righteous as someone policing someone else's morality. Laurell K. Hamilton

Close letter words and terms

self-reverence self-review self-right self-righteously self-righteously pious self-righteousness