| 单词 | self-righteous |
| 释义 | self-righteous (once / 10332 pages) adj A self-righteous person thinks their beliefs and morals are better than everyone else's. If you're quite sure the charity of others pales in comparison with yours, you might be self-righteous. Join the Old English words self, meaning "one's own person," and rightwise, meaning "virtuous," and you've got somebody who thinks very highly of their own morality. A self-righteous person thinks they can do no wrong, and goes about with a "holier-than-thou" attitude, judging and scrutinizing everyone else. A fur designer may view PETA activists as self-righteous when they picket his fashion show. You may consider a friend self-righteous when it comes to musical taste. WORD FAMILYself-righteous: self-righteously+/righteous: righteousest, righteously, righteousness, self-righteous, unrighteous/righteousness: righteousnesses/unrighteous: unrighteously, unrighteousness/unrighteousness: unrighteousnesses USAGE EXAMPLESThey migrate in great numbers to the US and then are self-righteous. New York Times(Jun 30, 2016) “Politically correct” became a kind of in-joke among American leftists – something you called a fellow leftist when you thought he or she was being self-righteous. The Guardian(Nov 30, 2016) It’s more than likely that Ford directed them there so that he wouldn’t have yet another self-righteous truth-seeking duo on his hands. Time(Nov 28, 2016) adj excessively or hypocritically pious Syn holier-than-thou, pharisaic, pharisaical, pietistic, pietistical, sanctimonious pious having or showing or expressing reverence for a deity |
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