Synonyms for self-righteous
- adjective
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Adjective
1. Sanctimonious — piously self-assured and smugly moralistic
sanctimonious, holier-than-thou, smug, pious, complacent, pharisaic, pietistic, pharisaical, pietistical
Definitions
- adj. 1
Piously self-assured and smugly moralistic.
Near-synonyms: smug, complacent; sanctimonious
Related words
- Word family
- self-righteously
Example sentences
- smug If you were less smug, you might have more friends.
- pious Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man.
- sanctimonious I've had enough of this sanctimonious talk.
By length
- 4 letters
- smug1
- 5 letters
- pious2
- 9 letters
- pharisaic, pietistic
- 10 letters
- complacent3
- 11 letters
- pharisaical, pietistical
- 13 letters
- sanctimonious5
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (pious2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- bien-pensant