self-righteously

Adverb

Meaning

in a sanctimonious manner

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

sanctimoniously righteous anxiously arrogantly self-righteous haughtily piously insincerely conceitedly presumptuously smugly complacently disingenuously pretentiously virtuously

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Antonyms

humbly apologetically

Examples

she was sanctimoniously criticizing everybody Source: Internet

It was the ultimate perfidy that exposed his own duplicity: In self-righteously, judgmentally, condemning Dr. King for his personal behaviors, he rationalized the need for King to be murdered. Source: Internet

You quickly become the very things you so self-righteously condemn. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

self-review self-right self-righteous self-righteously pious self-righteousness self-righter