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virtue signalling in British Englishnounbehaviour that is aimed at demonstrating one's own enlightened attitudes Examples of 'virtue signalling' in a sentencevirtue signalling His dismay at the aggressive, blinkered self-righteousness of our virtue-signalling, social-media age is heartfelt.The left, meanwhile, emits virtue-signalling pieties and bitter contemptuous shaming of anyone remotely comfortable.Isn't it a conspicuous case of virtue-signalling?He began with a piece of virtue-signalling.It is any wonder top cops are sidetracked by virtue-signalling?Online virtue-signalling has found a new victim.It was a case of virtue-signalling, telling everybody how much you really, really, care.These are the days of search engine optimisation, hashtagism and virtue signalling.Virtue signalling, you might say, but it worked. |