English Explanatory Dictionary

self-righteous

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Piously self-assured and smugly moralistic.
  2. Patronizingly moralizing and rebuking.

Word forms

self-righteous more self-righteous most self-righteous

Etymology

From self- + righteous.

Synonyms

holier-than-thou smug complacent sanctimonious

Related words

virtue signalling

Derived words

self-righteously self-righteousness
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