self-righteousness

Noun

Meaning

The quality or state of being self-righteous; pharisaism.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

cant mummery piety hypocrisy religiosity complacency affectation pietism gloating self-praise oiliness insincerity dissimulation falseness self-satisfaction
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Antonyms

integrity charity ignorance dissatisfaction honesty humility
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Examples

Righteousness cannot be born until self-righteousness is dead. Bertrand Russell

Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last. Charlotte Brontë

You accept certain unlovely things about yourself and manage to live with them. The atonement for such an acceptance is that you make allowances for others - that you cleanse yourself of the sin of self-righteousness. Eric Hoffer

A great novel heightens your senses and sensitivity to the complexities of life and of individuals, and prevents you from the self-righteousness that sees morality in fixed cormulas about good and evil. Azar Nafisi

Self-righteousness is a loud din raised to drown the voice of guilt within us. Eric Hoffer

We do not make people humble and meek when we show them their guilt and cause them to be ashamed of themselves. We are more likely to stir their arrogance and rouse in them a reckless aggressiveness. Self-righteousness is a loud din raised to drown the voice of guilt within us. Eric Hoffer

Close letter words and terms

self-righteous self-righteously self-righteously pious self-righter self-righting self-rising