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self-righteous

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++ˌself-ˈrighteous adjective  GOOD/MORALproudly sure that your beliefs, attitudes, and morals are good and right, in a way that annoys other people – used to show disapproval 自以为正直的,以正人君子自居的〔含贬义〕 SYN sanctimonious She’s a vegetarian, but she’s not at all self-righteous about it. 她是个素食者,但她并不以此来标榜自己。self-righteously adverbself-righteousness noun [uncountable]
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self-righteousWe have to learn tolerance, to look at our behaviour and to stop being self-righteous.I've got nothing against vegetarians, but some of them are so self-righteous!Bike riders seems to have this self-righteous attitude toward people in cars.This is the kind of self-righteous behaviour at which Mrs Thatcher's Government excels.But Springer, the former mayor of Cincinnati, insists on offering a self-righteous lecture at the end of each program.Ego is the self-righteous martyr inside each of us.In this self-righteous mood he drove home.His grandparents were stern and self-righteous people.He had entered the police station in a storm of self-righteous protest and had been by turn hectoring, belligerent and spiteful.She watched him in self-righteous silence.He doubted her policies and the self-righteous way in which they were promoted.
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self-righteous
ˌself-ˈrighteous adjective
proudly sure that your beliefs, attitudes, and morals are good and right, in a way that annoys other people – used to show disapproval
   SYN  sanctimonious:
    She’s a vegetarian, but she’s not at all self-righteous about it.
—self-righteously adverb
—self-righteousness noun [uncountable]


self-righteousBrE /ˌself ˈraɪtʃəs/ 🔊NAmE /ˌself ˈraɪtʃəs/ 🔊 adjective (disapproving) feeling or behaving as if what you say or do is always morally right, and other people are wrong 以正人君子自居的;自以为正直的 SYN sanctimonious self-righteous·ly BrE /ˌself ˈraɪtʃəsli/ 🔊NAmE /ˌself ˈraɪtʃəsli/ 🔊 adverb self-righteous·ness BrE /ˌself ˈraɪtʃəsnəs/ 🔊NAmE /ˌself ˈraɪtʃəsnəs/ 🔊 noun [uncountable]