adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Bike riders seems to have this self-righteous attitude toward people in cars.
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His grandparents were stern and self-righteous people.
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I've got nothing against vegetarians, but some of them are so self-righteous !
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But Springer, the former mayor of Cincinnati, insists on offering a self-righteous lecture at the end of each program.
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Ego is the self-righteous martyr inside each of us.
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He doubted her policies and the self-righteous way in which they were promoted.
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He had entered the police station in a storm of self-righteous protest and had been by turn hectoring, belligerent and spiteful.
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In this self-righteous mood he drove home.
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She watched him in self-righteous silence.
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This is the kind of self-righteous behaviour at which Mrs Thatcher's Government excels.
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We have to learn tolerance, to look at our behaviour and to stop being self-righteous .