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Proto-Indo-European *swé? English self-righteous
From self- + righteous.
self-righteous (comparative more self-righteous, superlative most self-righteous)
- Piously self-assured and smugly moralistic.
- Coordinate terms: self-assured; self-satisfied; sententious
- Near-synonyms: smug, complacent; sanctimonious
2003 August 16, vjmorton, “Not-so-brave heart”, in Rightwing Film Geek[1]:And is it not possible, Mr. Hier, that people are reacting (in a contemptible way, certainly) against your self-righteous bawling?
2017, Jules Radcliffe, Penitent Pirate:“God's blood, Thomas, self-righteous prickery is not the preserve of the English!”
- Patronizingly moralizing and rebuking.
piously self-assured and smugly moralistic
- Bulgarian: самоуве́рен (bg) (samouvéren)
- Catalan: purità m, gata maula f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 自以為是 / 自以为是 (zh) (zìyǐwéishì)
- Danish: selvretfærdig
- Esperanto: farisea
- Finnish: omahyväinen (fi), hurskasteleva (fi), tekohurskas
- French: bien-pensant (fr)
- Galician: condescendente (gl)
- German: selbstgerecht (de)
- Hungarian: önelégült (hu), öntelt (hu), szenteskedő (hu), szentfazék (hu)
- Irish: ceartaiseach
- Italian: farisaico m
- Kazakh: масайраған (masairağan), масаттанған (masattanğan), паңданған (pañdanğan)
- Korean: 고지식하다 (ko) (gojisikhada)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: selvrettferdig, fariseisk
- Polish: pyszałkowaty (pl), przemądrzały (pl), zarozumiały (pl), zadufany (pl), zadufany w sobie
- Portuguese: farisaico (pt) (rare)
- Russian: самодово́льный (ru) (samodovólʹnyj), самоуве́ренный (ru) (samouvérennyj), ха́нжеский (ru) (xánžeskij), фарисе́йский (ru) (fariséjskij)
- Spanish: mojigato (es), creído (es), santurrón (es), farisaico (es)
- Swedish: egenrättfärdig (sv), självrättfärdig (sv)
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