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Definition of Self-righteous
1. Adjective. Excessively or hypocritically pious. "A sickening sanctimonious smile"
Similar to: Pious
Derivative terms: Pharisee, Pharisee, Pietism, Pietism, Sanctimoniousness, Sanctimony
Definition of Self-righteous
1. Adjective. piously self-assured and smugly moralistic ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Self-righteous
Literary usage of Self-righteous
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of Joseph Bellamy, D.D., First Pastor of the Church in Bethlem by Joseph Bellamy, Tryon Edwards (1853)
"THE nature and -effects, the cause and cure of a self- righteous spirit, ...
In general, a self-righteous spirit consists in a disposition to think more ..."
2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"One great reproach cast upon Him by His enemies, the self-righteous Scribes and
Pharisees, was His friendship for, and association with publicans and ..."
3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"One great reproach cast upon Hun by His enemies, the self-righteous Scribes and
Pharisees, was His friendship for, and association with publicans and ..."
4. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"One great reproach cast upon Him by His enemies, the self-righteous Scribes and
Pharisees, was His friendship for, and association with publicans and ..."
5. A Journal Or Historical Account of the Life, Travels, Sufferings, Christian by George Fox, William Penn, Margaret Askew Fell Fox (1839)
"Withal, they grew high, rough, and self-righteous, opposing further attainment ;
too much forgetting the day of their infancy and littleness, ..."
6. Slavery in South Carolina and the Ex-slaves by Austa Malinda French (1862)
"THE Colored people do not incline to magnify their sufferings, even were that
possible; nor yet their patience, in a self-righteous, or self-flattering ..."
7. The Works of the Rev. Joseph Bellamy, D.D., Late of Bethlem, Connecticut by Joseph Bellamy, Noah Benedict (1812)
"Impenitent, self-righteous, Christless sinners, are under the curse of the law
of God: but this is inconsistent with their being in covenant with God, ..."
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