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self-righteous

self-righteous adjective: piously self-assured and smugly moralistic.

Adjective

self-righteous (comparative more self-righteous, superlative most self-righteous)

  1. Piously self-assured and smugly moralistic.
    • Near-synonyms: smug, complacent; sanctimonious
    • And is it not possible, Mr. Hier, that people are reacting (in a contemptible way, certainly) against your self-righteous bawling?2003 August 16, vjmorton, “Not-so-brave heart”, in Rightwing Film Geek
  2. Patronizingly moralizing and rebuking.

self-righteous meaning in Tamil, Marathi and Malayalam

self-righteous in Tamil

தன்னேர்மையுணர்வு வாய்ந்த, தன்னொழுக்க முனைப்புணர்வுடைய, தன் நோக்கில் தற்றுய்மையுள்ள, ஒழுக்க வீறாப்பு வாய்ந்த

self-righteous in Marathi

self-righteous, conceited, stuck-up, snobbish
शिष्ट śiṣṭa

self-righteous in Malayalam

self-satisfied, sanctimonious, holier-than-thou
ദാംഭികനായ, പുണ്യവാളനായി നടിക്കുന്ന, വിശുദ്ധ ഭാവമുള്ള, സ്വന്തം നേട്ടങ്ങളിൽ അതിയായ തൃപ്തിയുള്ള, കൊണവതിയാരം കാണിക്കുന്ന, മേന്മനടിക്കുന്ന

Synonyms of self-righteous

Forms of self-righteous

comparativemore self-righteous
superlativemost self-righteous

Origin of self-righteous

From self- + righteous.

Words formed from self-righteous

Questions about self-righteous

What does self-righteous mean?
Self-righteous means piously self-assured and smugly moralistic.
What is self-righteous in Tamil?
Self-righteous in Tamil is தன்னேர்மையுணர்வு வாய்ந்த, தன்னொழுக்க முனைப்புணர்வுடைய, தன் நோக்கில் தற்றுய்மையுள்ள. See Self-righteous meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is self-righteous?
Self-righteous is an adjective.

Words near self-righteous in the dictionary

  1. self-revelations
  2. self-review
  3. self-reviews
  4. self-right
  5. self-righted
  6. self-righteous
  7. self-righteously
  8. self-righteousness
  9. self-righter
  10. self-righters
  11. self-righting

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: self-righteous (page history and authors); self-righteous (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); शिष्ट (Marathi) (page history and authors); self-righteous (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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