self-righteous

English

Etymology

From self- +‎ righteous.

Adjective

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

1. Piously self-assured and smugly moralistic.
   • 2017, Jules Radcliffe, Penitent Pirate:

     “God's blood, Thomas, self-righteous prickery is not the preserve of the English!”

Derived terms

• self-righteously
• self-righteousness

Translations

piously self-assured and smugly moralistic

• Bulgarian: самоуве́рен (bg) (samouvéren)
• Catalan: purità m, gata maula f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 自以為是／自以为是 (zh) (zìyǐwéishì)

• Danish: selvretfærdig
• Esperanto: farisea
• Finnish: omahyväinen (fi), hurskasteleva (fi), tekohurskas
• French: bien-pensant (fr)
• Galician: condescendente (gl)
• German: selbstgerecht (de)
• Hungarian: önelégült (hu), öntelt (hu), szenteskedő (hu), szentfazék (hu)
• Irish: ceartaiseach
• Italian: farisaico m
• Korean: 고지식하다 (ko) (gojisikhada)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: selvrettferdig, fariseisk

• Portuguese: farisaico (rare)
• Russian: самодово́льный (ru) (samodovólʹnyj), самоуве́ренный (ru) (samouvérennyj), ха́нжеский (ru) (xánžeskij), фарисе́йский (ru) (fariséjskij)
• Spanish: mojigato (es) m, creído (es), santurrón m, farisaico (es) m
• Swedish: egenrättfärdig (sv), självrättfärdig (sv)

See also

• virtue signalling