Self-righteous

Definition: Self-righteous

Self-righteous

Adjective

1. Excessively or hypocritically pious; "a sickening sanctimonious smile".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "self-righteous" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1869. (references)

Synonyms: Self-righteous

Crosswords: Self-righteous

You are so self-righteous, you know (Manhattan; writing credit: Woody Allen ; Marshall Brickman)

Before he gets too self-righteous, Katrina, ask him how well he knows Jenna Freeman (Storm of the Century; writing credit: Stephen King)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Psychotherapy and the Self-Righteous Patient (The Psychotherapy Patient Series, Vol 7, Nos 3 and 4 1991) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Albanian

që i jep të drejtë vetes, i vetëkënaqur (complacent, coxcombical, egotist, fatuous, jaunty, self sufficient, self-satisfied, smug). (various references)

Bulgarian 

самодоволен (airy, bighead, cock-a-hoop, complacent, jaunty, self-satisfied, smug), фарисейски (pharisaic). (various references)

Chinese 

自以为是 (Self-righteousness). (various references)

German

pharisäisch (pharisaic, pharisaical). (various references)

Greek 

φαρισαϊκόσ (pharisaic), θεωρών εαυτόν ενάρετον, θεωρών εαυτόν δίκαιον, διακιοφανήσ. (various references)

Hungarian

önelégült (complacent, self confident, self sufficient, self-complacent, self-satisfied, self-sufficient, smirk, smug), farizeusi (pharisaic). (various references)

Italian

presuntuoso (arrogant, assuming, assumptive, big-headed, bumptious, conceited, confident, consequential, jackanapes, opinionated, overweening, presumptuous, puppyish, uppish, uppity). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

独善的 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

どくぜ�"てき. (various references)

Korean 

독� (Self-righteousness). (various references)

Manx

hene-chairal. (various references)

Pig Latin

elf-righteoussay.(various references)

Portuguese

hipócrita (cant, canting, dissembler, double, double-dealer, double-faced, hypocrite, hypocritical, insincere, pecksniffian, prudish, sanctimonious, two-faced, two-tongued), farisaico (pharisaic). (various references)

Romanian

fariseic (hypocritical, hypocritically, pharisaical, pharisaically). (various references)

Russian 

самодовольный (bighead, bumptious, cock-a-hoop, complacent, conceited, coxcombical, huffy, po-faced, priggish, self-complacent, self-satisfied, smug, stuck-up), ханжеский (canting, churchy, holier-than-thou, pious, sanctified, sanctimonious), фарисейский (pharisaic, pharisaical). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

pravičan po svom ubeđenju. (various references)

Spanish

farisaico (pharisaic, pharisaical). (various references)

Swedish

självgod (priggish, self-opinionated). (various references)

Turkish

tepeden bakan (haughty, high and mighty, high hat, holier-than-thou, snooty, supercilious), kendini birşey sanan (self-assertive, self-important), kendini beğenmiş (arrogant, assuming, bighead, bigheaded, bumptious, cavalier, chesty, cocky, conceited, egotistical, haughty, high hat, high-flown, high-flying, hoity toity, hoity-toity, holier-than-thou, important, insufferable, jackanapes, jumped-up, mugwump, overweening, pompous, pretentious, prig, priggish, self sufficient, self-important, self-opinionated, smug, Sniffy, snooty, snotty, stuck up, stuffed shirt, stuffy, supercilious, swelled head, swollen-headed, taffy-nosed, toffee-nosed, toffy-nosed, uppish, uppity, upstage, vain). (various references)

Ukrainian

самовдоволений (cock-a-hoop, complacent, coxcombical, jaunty, opinioned, prick-eared, self-approving, self-complacent, self-satisfied, smug, stuck up), лицемірний (cant, canting, double dealing, double-tongued, histrionic, hypocrite, hypocritical, jesuit, left handed, specious). (various references)

Vietnamese 

tự cho l� đúng đắn. (various references)

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