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self-righteous
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective self-righteous has 1 sense
- self-righteous(s = adj.all) holier-than-thou, pharisaic, pharisaical, pietistic, pietistical, sanctimonious - excessively or hypocritically pious; "a sickening sanctimonious smile"
OXFORD DICTIONARY
self-righteous, adj. excessively conscious of or insistent on one's rectitude, correctness, etc.
Derivative
self-righteously adv. self-righteousness n.
THESAURUS
self-righteous
Tartuffian, Tartuffish, affected, canting, complacent, false, goody, goody-goody, holier-than-thou, hypocritical, insincere, mealy-mouthed, mealymouthed, pecksniffian, pharisaic, pharisaical, pi, pietistic, pious, priggish, sanctified, sanctimonious, self-satisfied, smug, sniveling, superior, unctuous
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