How To Use Self-righteous In A Sentence

While the Irish government generates a lot of noisy, self-righteous cant about the evils of cigarettes at home, it makes a pretty packet from ‘selling death’ abroad.
We have to learn tolerance, to look at our behaviour and to stop being self-righteous.
They're willing to do anything in service to any liberal with money, and then they'll turn around and in self-righteous indignation claim that they have cleaner hands than anybody in the news business who accepts advertising or expresses a point of view. Notable & Quotable
Our challenge is to be cautious not to take on a tone of self-righteousness and insensitivity to those whose policies we critique.
There was a previous thread on the evil of Che Guevara in which the righties were self-righteously denouncing Che for his crimes. The Volokh Conspiracy » Competing Explanations for the Oppressive Nature of Socialism

I became a self-righteous bigot as the hatred in my heart grew.
Nor should the irony of this be overlooked, given Hanson's stridently self-righteous defense of free speech in the face of repressive political correctness.
But when push came to shove and the whining became not only endless but destructive, I could support neither the decision he made nor the way he made it -- self-righteously, thoughtlessly and hatefully. Toxic Venting: When to Stop Listening
Was Deming infused with a sense of self-righteousness?
Even more infuriating are the self-righteous hypocrites who claim to speak for a superior moral majority.
A lot of us don't get a lot out of narrow-minded, self-righteous, paranoia coupled with obviously disingenuous yatter about being the party of small government and fiscal conservatism – eight years of George Bush made those lies too obvious to miss. 'Regular guy' Thune is hot commodity in GOP circles
He can be charmlessly self-righteous. Times, Sunday Times
A class is created of dogged self-righteous obstructionists with a vested interest in the status quo, however obsolescent, however decayed, however inappropriate to the site.
Yes, PBS can be irritatingly self-righteous, and reflects a left-of-center bias in both its tone of voice and its story selection. Bill Shireman: A Conservative Case for Public Broadcasting
He is critical of the monks, whom he considers narrow-minded and self-righteous.
A cousin, exasperatedly and somewhat self-righteously, called him a crybaby.
They're self-righteous librarians drunk on the power of process and convinced of the virtue of martyrdom.
Becker used the unflattering term "self-righteous" to capture this idea and many times the expression of this is unflattering but it need not be as virtueless as that. Paul Pardi: Protesting Protestantism: Why Religion Must Continue To Change
The other tabloids will gleefully join in, in a frenzy of self-righteous hypocrisy.
The tape with the self-righteous denunciations has been taken off the reel while the new tape, full of self-righteous media navel-gazing, is cued up.
This sort of smug, self-righteous moralising is exactly what the original American student was speaking out against.
As we grow increasingly self-righteous and hypercritical, we stumble into the ‘martyr trap.’
Now they could wallow in self-righteous indignation. THE GUARDSMEN
It certainly will stop all that santctimonius, self-righteous, holier than thou blather from the neo-con "christians"! Sanford ally: Governor remains 'defiant'
His tone of voice, so patronizing, so self-righteous, filled her with rage. COMPULSION
He appeared not to care, and worse, preached self-righteousness without knowing why.
And my problem with those on the edges of politics, both on the far right and far left, is the self-righteous certainty that their view should be my view.
This self-righteousness, this bilious holier-than-thou attitude not only amazes me, it saddens me quite a bit too.
More that, you know, humorless, self-righteous schtick you do. THE SAVING GRACES
Hoping to successfully merge daffiness with doctrine, it has a lot to say about censorship and self-righteousness.
At times this approached a rankling self-righteousness, but generally his contemporaries saw him as reserved, gentle, and charitable.
Such judgmental questions sound like that arch-conservative self-righteous man who every young woman in the vicinity knows is a groping ogler.
She produced a tape which she says lays bare the hypocrisy of a famous self-righteous director whom she depicts as a libidinous villain.
In fact, he don’t know nothing except that Dave Robicheaux, who he called a self-righteous lush, is about to get his wick snuffed. Dave Robicheaux Ebook Boxed Set
Is it any wonder I am infuriated by smug, self-righteous politicians who know nothing about country life yet want to abolish hunting with hounds?
These holier-than-thou guardians of free speech are practically creaming with self-righteous glee as they publicly lynch this young woman for saying something dreadfully stupid that she undoubtedly deeply regrets. The Volokh Conspiracy » Judging a Person Based on a Single Forwarded Personal E-Mail
It's easy to see this self-righteous attitude too often adopted by anyone in a uniform. Times, Sunday Times
Governor Sanford's greatest self-embarrassment is his self-righteous condemnation of others 'behavior. Bennett: Sanford needs to stop 'embarrassing himself'
It stresses throughout the narrow line separating righteousness from self-righteousness, and admonishes believers to be humble in the knowledge that no person nor even any creed can claim to have the full truth.
A bit uptight and self-righteous. Times, Sunday Times
He sighed, slightly relieved to have escaped their self-righteous wrath, but also a bit discomposed.
Lest I be further accused of being sanctimonious or self-righteous, I confess I am no model of student participation.
You have been intimidated by their moralising self-righteousness, brow-beaten by their puritanical spartanism, seduced by their appointment-diary ethics.
So she had a big blow-up with her father and was self-righteous that he should think that she would not pretend to go to church, and all this sort of thing.
He is not a snoopy, self-righteous, trouble-making person.
I had been a born-again Christian for less than six months, but I knew I never wanted to be like this self-righteous, mean-spirited pastor. Recovering From Religious Abuse
He is critical of the monks, whom he considers narrow-minded and self-righteous.
Buy" does not imply that we can, by any work or merit of ours, purchase God's free gift; nay the very purchase money consists in the renunciation of all self-righteousness, such as Laodicea had (Re 3: 17). Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
It should be possible to pillory the defensive self-righteousness and racism of some – not all – Israelis without being called antisemitic. Letter: Proportionate play
The licensed trade are self-righteous, self-obsessed and selfish in their opposition to a ban.
Someday the 31% of us - gay and straight, will foredo the uptight self-righteous homophobic elitists and see just a bit more constitutional civil rights in the U.S. Isn't it queer
How dare a midwife behave in such a sanctimonious and self-righteous manner.
At the moment, our self-righteous claim that we are here to ensure accountability is so screamingly hypocritical it's our credibility that's shot to pieces.
We consume from necessity, with a self-righteous tinge of regret; others waste because of selfishness and stupidity.
In my experience, moral outrage all too quickly becomes self-righteous authoritarianism.
But Rhee, self-righteous and unaccommodating of divergent viewpoints, had the biggest ego of them all.
It's not about feeling self-righteous. Christianity Today
We need a mirror philosophy, if you will, one that reflects a state-endorsed ideology, tolerates no criticism, deals brutally with those who disagree and advances its cause with self-righteous violence.
Or would they rather emotionally identify with the uncool, harrumphing, self-righteous crowd, who just don't get it?
As he felt the young fellow's eyes upon him he recalled the effusive piety of his conversation at Tyler Sudley's house, his animadversions on violin-playing and liquor-drinking, and Brother Peter Vickers's mild and merciful attitude toward sinners in those un-spiced sermons of his, that held out such affluence of hope to the repentant rather than to the self-righteous. The Moonshiners At Hoho-Hebee Falls 1895
Stubbornly self-righteous and willful, Higgins demonstrates his ideals in his brazen disregard for the Victorian rules of conduct.
Different quote. "Kagan is a self-righteous little man" Now I've got to tell you, that bit about being little, that really hurts.
History is littered with the debris of self-righteous, intolerant, xenophobic, rabble-rousing ideologies.
There will be self-righteous demands for vegetarian vol-au-vents made from people wearing fur coats made from a Siberian Tiger.
Then there's the bad, bad kind, where one is blatantly rude, pompous and self-righteous about what they do not know.
They are supposed to have been the epitome of self-righteousness and intolerance, a black stain on the history of the Catholic Church in particular and Western civilization in general.
He eventually evolved into what had to be the most self-righteous, straight-laced "hoodlum" prime time ever saw. Pre-Shark
And when you try to impose them on others, you make yourself into a bully, a boring nag, or a self-righteous bigot.
Sadly this tone of sanctimonious self-righteousness characterises much of the exhibition.
Suffice to say I am suspicious of the self-righteous and high-minded motives you gave for pursuing this line of attack.
You deserved it, you self-righteous ugly fatso.
Have you self-righteous prigs forgotten all about the womanizing Kennedies? Jenny Sanford files for divorce
Raw organic foodism is especially good for "holy joes," a sort of better-than-everyone-else person who enjoys great self-righteousness by owning this system. How and When to Be Your Own Doctor
This was before I went on the web and knew almost nothing about paranoid personality disorder and just assumed the term paranoid schizophrenic was an hysterical insult that self-righteous idiots flung at a person they didn't like. MetaFilter Projects
Lincoln was a man of moral purpose who never allowed himself to become self-righteous about his morality.
| Reply | Permalink as they should. they should expose the perfidies of the self-righteous davis. he hit them hard last week and they should bulldoze him. he deserves it. and mccain deserves it. Obama Camp To Hit McCain Hard In Ohio On Job-Killing Deal
Her speechifying was made fun of, and her black and white, self-righteous attitude grew out of her own long-running self-involvement; it was very obviously intended as a character flaw.
I was in Wellington, too, when the Beatles came to town, but with all the proud independence of a self-righteous adolescent I chose not to join the adulatory crowd or even to go to the Fab Four's concerts.
PPS, when trying to be arsey and self-righteous, thesaurus. com is an immense help! EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Best email in a while
June 26th, 2009 5: 52 pm ET how comments come back to bite you ... i bet he is wishing he could take back all the self-righteous things he said during the clinton-lewinsky scandal. in the words of "maria", [he] "cant put the GENIUS back in the bottle". Republican calls for investigations into Sanford
A Buddhist minister and his sangha or a swami and his sannyasins can be every bit as pious and self-righteous as a Christian priest and his congregation.
They seem to stand for all I think is wrong with writing about literature, arbitrary disputes laced with hysteria, the creation of pointless ghettos, self-righteous sneering thinly disguised as intellectual superiority, tantrums about issues so unimportant in the global scale of things that I start to wonder myself about the point of what we do. The Grumpy Critic « Tales from the Reading Room
In my experience, moral outrage all too quickly becomes self-righteous authoritarianism.
The comic-drama of this man who is teased for being a tight-ass, ‘a self-righteous goody two-shoes,’ feels like the enactment of an old, old moment in the history of mutual human dumbness.
We are a straightforward and self-righteous people, so we are rather good at viciousness, but lacking in irony.
Should we allow our cultural heritage to be hijacked by a handful of self-righteous pedagogical censors?
The insult, which refers to an ancient religious sect but is commonly used to refer to a self-righteous person, sent Martynyuk lunging for his fellow politician, grabbing him by the neck and pushing him to the ground. Adam Martynyuk Attacks Ukraine Parliamentarian (VIDEO)
He's so self-righteous - you'd think he'd never done anything wrong in his life.
Indian men must shed their moral self-righteousness and acquire a practical sense, a manipulative, this-worldly cunning and aggressiveness.
But then I began to feel rather like a character in one of those moralistic cartoons - a man who has a mischievous imp on one shoulder and a self-righteous angel on the other.
This is a warning against self-righteous severity, as elaborated on in the Talmudic collection of commentary on Jewish custom and law called the Mishnah: "Do not judge your fellow until you are in his position" (Aboth 2: 5). Michael Shermer: The Power of Positive Skepticism: A Reply to Deepak Chopra
I'd take this old lady for a nieghbor any day over any of the self-righteous prigs hammering at her. Elderly Women Charged With Beating Fawn To Death
History is littered with the debris of self-righteous, intolerant, xenophobic, rabble-rousing ideologies.
Your letters are filled with such painful need and chilly, self-righteous anger that most people would have run a mile. Times, Sunday Times
But fortunately for my self-righteous and judgemental streak, I can't afford to indulge in fashion.
Now, conversely, Edie Falco does Jessie with an edgy, self-righteous revanchism, while Brenda Blethyn's earthier, more grounded Thelma bespeaks what might be presumed a likelier survivor.
I love how apt your mention of the system of checks-&-balances is, especially in this context of abuse: The agitated artists shout that GMA's intervention constitutes an abuse of power, but are they not themselves being abusive in their self-righteous attempt to police the President in her very conferment of a presidential award to awardees of her choosing? FEATURE ARTICLE: ON THE PHILIPPINES' 2009 NATIONAL ARTIST AWARDS
They used to argue about which condition was worse, each blessed with the energy which only the self-righteous possess.
He's so self-righteous - you'd think he'd never done anything wrong in his life.
We have now been subjected to three biased reports over the past three weeks and several self-righteous letters from family and supporters of these boys.
In fact, those compelled to eat perfectly organic, nutritious, pure foods often feel a step above the rest of us - saintly and self-righteous.
Self-righteousness is a manifestation of self-contempt.
The resultant atmosphere of zealous, self-righteous piety smacks of the same sort of religious-based fundamentalism that is derided and anathematized when proclaimed by radical Islamists, to offer but one example. American Exceptionalism
Then, when it’s proven once again, we sit back in sanctimonious self-righteousness shocked, absolutely shocked, about humankind’s venality. The Early Word: Obama Meets the Press - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
Doubtless your sisters-in-law will think you a patronising, self-righteous old bag, but you can't have it all ways.
He is positively glowing with self-righteous zeal beside his equally sober betrothed.
Or merely a kind of nonstrategic personal therapy, a massaging of self-righteousness? Archive 2008-08-01
The comic-drama of this man who is teased for being a tight-ass, ‘a self-righteous goody two-shoes,’ feels like the enactment of an old, old moment in the history of mutual human dumbness.
He is positively glowing with self-righteous zeal beside his equally sober betrothed.
As it is, the book is an invaluable source for those interested in Tory history over three decades, but it is a shame that the protagonist should appear as a cardboard cut-out of self-righteous disappointment.
Anger builds on anger, reinforced by self-righteousness and then becomes an unreasoned rage.
It is not remotely didactic and it is mercifully free from the self-righteous pomposity that you might expect from a banker who is also an ordained clergyman. Times, Sunday Times
It's a shrill, macho, fatuously self-righteous action movie about a wholesome superstar called Bo persecuted by paparazzi.
They used to argue about which condition was worse, each blessed with the energy which only the self-righteous possess.
Last week, amid the clouds of self-righteous humbug billowing out from Bali, Gordon Brown committed us to what I do not hesitate to call the maddest single decision ever made by British ministers. Archive 2007-12-01
Atrocities are happening all over the world due to the self-righteous, self-seeking gratification of particular groups.
Deb Aoki is more blatant: “before you get all self-righteous about how you’re standing up for Tite Kubo, ask yourself how many Bleach scanlations/fansubs you download.” Plagiarism, Scanlations, and Copies: Nick Simmons’ Incarnate Rips Off Bleach » Manga Worth Reading
This wretched, self-serious, self-righteous, pointless bit of science fiction detritus is based on a short story universally acknowledged as a classic of the genre, "Mimsy Were the Borogoves" by Henry Kuttner and Katherine L. Moore. Movie Review: The Last Mimzy
What can anyone say to anything so overtly biased and self-righteous? Discourse.net: Economist.com Does '7 Questions for Dan Froomkin'
Or was he just a hypocritical, self-righteous, white-collar crimebuster who dropped $100,000 at an escort service coincidentally under federal wiretap? Politics Daily
But she couldn't, and I just want to tell her that I think she is too self-righteous and moralizing and someday when she grows up a bit, she might understand.
No, this isn't some self-righteous attempt to point fingers or be judgmental.
Gawker has a great piece by Max Read that picks apart the argument that people like the Pauls make against supposed government invasiveness shown by organisations like the TSA.Libertarians are a people constantly in search of issues to be self-righteous about. Florida primary campaign – live
By puncturing their smug self-righteousness and their pretense to impossibly high standards, Flashman shows them as genuinely great men and women, not the panegyrical statuary of Victorian literature—and he shows them as such by describing their response to him. Archive 2009-03-01
They feel self-righteous and some of them see themselves as the victims of a hostile establishment. Times, Sunday Times
The Mutawas, clothed in self-righteousness, were there to bear witness to the appropriate punishment.
The zealous attitude of such people reminded others of Victorian scholars and missionaries self-righteously proclaiming "Lamaism" a degenerate form of Buddhism. Relating to a Spiritual Teacher: Building a Healthy Relationship �� Preface: Historical Survey of the Interaction between Western Seekers and Tibetan Spiritual Teachers
And it's not safe. someone "dognapped" a new puppy at the beach, I was skeptical, but was trying to not let my karma get lost in my self-righteous indignation. Ejshea.com
Easy to appeal to but hard to anatomize and harder to practice intelligently, there are honorable loyalties, but there are also stupid ones, and destructive ones, and it is particularly self-righteous and futile to stress it in a relationship that involves careers, talent and business. David Colbert: Styron's Choice: Authors, Editors, and Loyalty
My self-righteousness faded immediately, for the principal replied with astonishing promptness and courtesy.
You spend lots of time being snug and smug in the spa, then feel very self-righteous when you venture out into the cold.
I think she wants a justiceship so that she can fully indulge her pompous self-righteousness in the lamest branch of the federal government. Obama Making Private Calls Appealing To Hillary's Top Fundraisers -- And Sometimes Hearing Criticism In Return
I think all this self-righteous morality is just jealousy with a halo and hypocrisy.
The tone is superior and self-righteous, but there is some truth to what Wills was saying.
It certainly will stop all that sanctimonious, self-righteous, holier-than-thou blather from the neo-con "christian" right-wing bible thumpers! Bennett: Sanford needs to stop 'embarrassing himself'
Stubbornly self-righteous and willful, Higgins demonstrates his ideals in his brazen disregard for the Victorian rules of conduct.
Most likely somewhere in between, I guess... but something about the bolshie, self-righteous tone of the question does make this person sound like he/she might be... well, difficult. Nowadays Love Is a Matter of Chance, Matrimony a Matter of Money, and Divorce a Matter of Course
I, too, was up at the crack o’ Dawn (and can tell you she really should wax more often) o’er the past “festive” season, dragging my sorry ass through miles and miles of slimey sludge in barefoot with nothing more than a whif of self-righteousness and a square of Jatz cracker to keep me going. Cheeseburger Gothic » Sweet jeebus, lookit this mess!
But, you should know that, like me, Jefferson was only against the "corruptions" of Christianity, and against the religious bigotry and hypocrisy of arrogant, self-important and self-righteous people who claimed to be Christian authorities. Most of the Founding Fathers and Early Presidents Were Deists and Freemasons, Not Christians
This same weekend, at an Iowa "Thanksgiving Family Forum," Newt Gingrich sprayed bile at Occupy Wall Street protesters, denouncing them as lazy thieving self-righteous hypocrites, and instructing them to "go get a job right after you take a bath. Marty Kaplan: Students: Cockroaches or Dirty Hippies?
What's with all this self-righteous indignation about reality television?
Howie manages to pull of a tricky acting feat - he's at once judgmental, blustering, self-righteous, and yet somehow pitiable.
There are people who are just as ignorant and self-righteous trying to get the word Mongoloid for the Mongoloid race changed to something else because the West had been using the word Mongoloid for children born with a specific birth defect. Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me
It makes me seethe with anger, the image of these people smugly congratulating themselves for their self-righteousness while hurting so many good and decent people.
Even though the self-righteous Bachmann is a native of Waterloo, Iowa, voters in the Hawkeye State just cannot see trusting her with the codes to the U.S. nuclear arsenal trusting a Creationist like Bachmann on any public policy is akin to trusting a phrenologist with curing your cancer. James Marshall Crotty: Why Republicans Embrace Simpletons and How It Hurts America
Tomasz felt as he did in the aftermath of a drunken night or when firing a recalcitrant worker, the surge of self-righteous energy replaced by a sense of his own puniness. ALONE With You
Frankly, I think they are self-righteous and insulting. Obery M. Hendricks, Jr., Ph.D.: Mitt Romney And The Curse of Blackness
Not self-righteousness, to which as human beings in a favored position we are always tempted, but that basic unpurchasable goodness, honesty, and kindness which we believe are integral to the nature of reality. An Exile's View of Canada
We are getting too self-righteous and smug in our self-importance.
He was paranoid, obsessive, perfectionist, thin-skinned and self-righteous, and his diary is the long story of a man going mad and taking forty years over it.
Ordinarily this would have been my cue to indulge in a display of self-righteous indignation, but there's not much point when nobody can understand you.
He seemed to conjure up contradictory feelings of self-abnegation and self-righteousness, of the need for charity and the compulsion to talk about one's personal sense of sacrifice.
We were feeling really self-righteous for ages. The Sun
We'd give them the belt, but their self-righteous indignation is cloying.
I will never forget how I felt that day or how I almost let a self-righteous, judgmental pharmacist change my life.
Their mean-spiritedness, which they wear self-righteously as a badge of virtue, repulses everyone they touch. Recovering From Religious Abuse
This should not reinforce any smug, self-righteous complacency on the part of mainline churches.
Accompanying this disdain for people is a self-righteous delusion that they alone are saving the planet with their steady diet of self-denial.
The world's most fearful autarch finally encountered someone more unbending, self-righteous and ideological than himself. Times, Sunday Times
Oooh, now I can add "hypocritical" to "self-righteous, narcissistic, prevaricating political hack"! Sanford releases statement: 'I ask for your forgiveness'
She will become unself-critical and demanding of others; what might, with some justification, be called a self-righteous prig.

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