Definitions
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.
Wiktionary
- n. Confidence in one's own righteousness, self-assurance, smug.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The quality or state of being self-righteous; pharisaism.
Etymologies
- self- + righteous + -ness (Wiktionary)
Examples
“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.”
“Hysteria, born of self-righteousness, is delightful for a few moments.”
The Guardian: Why drown Ken Clarke in this tidal wave of phony anger? | Rachel Cooke
“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
“It'll be a rare person who can match Mr. Olbermann for ego, pomposity, volume, self-righteousness, monomania and sheer obnoxiousness.”
“Most seem afraid to do so, perhaps cowed into submission by the self-righteousness of the new Mighty Fortress of Christian fundamentalism.”
The Huffington Post: Terence Clarke: Catholics, Condoms and the Separation of Church and State
“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.”
The Huffington Post: Misha Lyuve: Impatience and Being Undeserving
“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
“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.”
“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..”
“Get over yourself dude, no one is imnpressed by your preening self-righteousness.”
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