Definitions
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- n. Confidence in one's own righteousness, self-assurance, smug.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. The quality or state of being self-righteous; pharisaism.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Reliance on one's own supposed righteousness; righteousness the merits of which a person attributes to himself; false or pharisaical righteousness.
Etymologies
Examples
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It's so insanely inmoral to expect we can invade and remodel countries we don't like via self-righteousness means when we can't arrive at concensus here on virtually anything.
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Hysteria, born of self-righteousness, is delightful for a few moments.
Why drown Ken Clarke in this tidal wave of phony anger? | Rachel Cooke
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I seriously doubt her answer would include being subjected to the voyeuristic self-righteousness of some random dude she doesn't know from Adam in order that he might feel like he's a modern day Messiah.
I want you to stop stalking "overweight" women. - Feministing
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It'll be a rare person who can match Mr. Olbermann for ego, pomposity, volume, self-righteousness, monomania and sheer obnoxiousness.
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Most seem afraid to do so, perhaps cowed into submission by the self-righteousness of the new Mighty Fortress of Christian fundamentalism.
Terence Clarke: Catholics, Condoms and the Separation of Church and State
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Luckily, traveling through the island I had many opportunities to watch my impatience rise from my stomach, mixed with the sense of entitlement, flavored with disappointment and frustration and garnished with self-righteousness, getting crushed against the shores of my consciousness as foamy and mighty waves of famous surfing beaches in Cabarete.
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These people bringing threats to the congressmen are evil, as well as those that conseal their true intentions self-righteousness.
GA congressman describes hate mail, Nazi graffiti after protests
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I may without self-righteousness or hypocrisy think it just to defend my house by force against a burglar; but if I start pretending that I blacked his eye purely on moral grounds — wholly indifferent to the fact that the house in question was mine — I become insufferable.
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Prejudice is positively reinforced by the self-righteousness of defending/advocating the “natural order” in which blacks are seen as “sub-human”, homosexuality is seen as “perversion”, etc..
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Get over yourself dude, no one is imnpressed by your preening self-righteousness.
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