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Self-righteous

adj

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Piously self-assured and smugly moralistic.

    "Near-synonyms: smug, complacent; sanctimonious"

  2. 2
    Patronizingly moralizing and rebuking.
Adjective
  1. 1
    excessively or hypocritically pious wordnet

Etymology

From self- + righteous.

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