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• s  excessively or hypocritically pious

• There are plenty of other reforms necessary the international humanitarian effort is a shabby, self-righteous mess; some of our NATO allies aren't carrying their share of the .
• It's something like a national case of sibling rivalry, with millennials playing the part of the spoiled, naive baby and boomers acting as the self-righteous firstborn.
• Angry, competitive, saddened, self-righteous and more than a little jealous that this guy was stealing some of my autobiographical thunder, I approached Nasdijj's publishers and .

• holier-than-thou
• pietistic
• pietistical
• pharisaic
• pharisaical
• sanctimonious

News & Articles

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• In defense of the baby-boom generation’s ideals (2 letters)
  Re: “No surprise that boomers are killing themselves,” June 7 letter to the editor. Donna Brosemer’s letter about baby boomers — whom she says have a “self-centered, self-righteous attitude of entitlement” — killing themselves was thoughtless, even cruel. One of the major reasons for suicide is depression, a serious mental illness. No one chooses to [...]
  June 11, 2013 - Denver Post
• Self-righteous souls policing the nation
  It warms my heart to see so many 'perfect' and self-righteous souls with God on speed dial — and the self-appointed authority to speak for Him — policing the nation and world's moral state.
  June 9, 2013 - Reno Gazette-Journal
• The ‘Riot’ act
  Pussy Riot, a totally talentless, self-righteous punk not-rock group — who are better at self-promotion than Donald Trump — are the subjects of an endless documentary on HBO about their feminist courage. In case you don’t know them, Pussy Riot is as ridiculous an overblown Russian phenomenon as Anna Chapman, the...
  June 8, 2013 - New York Post

Quotes

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• Ehud Olmert in FOXNews
  Israel will give 100 percent backing to those who acted in its name and on its behalf. The justice minister will give legal responses to all the self-righteous, sanctimonious types who would sue our soldiers and officers,Prime Minister Ehud...
• Susan Sontag in Pulse of the Twin Cities
  The disconnect between last Tuesday's monstrous dose of reality and the self-righteous drivel and outright deceptions being peddled by public figures and TV commentators is depressing,Sontag wrote. "The voices licensed to follow the event...
• Conrad Black in BusinessWeek
  I know these Tweedy Browne people fairly well,Black said in his e-mail, which was written at 1:04 am "They are self-righteous but not dishonest and it should be possible to defuse this."