Usually means: Convinced of one's own righteousness.
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  1. self-righteous: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. self-righteous: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. self-righteous: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. self-righteous, self-righteous: Collins English Dictionary
  5. self-righteous: Vocabulary.com
  6. Self-Righteous, Self-righteous, self-righteous: Wordnik
  7. self-righteous: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. self-righteous: Wiktionary
  9. self-righteous: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. self-righteous: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. self-righteous: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. self-righteous: Dictionary.com
  13. self-righteous: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. self-righteous: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Self-righteous: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Self-righteous: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. self-righteous: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. self-righteous: Rhymezone
  19. self-righteous: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. self-righteous: Free Dictionary
  21. self-righteous: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. self-righteous: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. Self-Righteous: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See self-righteously as well.)

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▸ adjective:  Piously self-assured and smugly moralistic.

Similar:
holier-than-thou, sanctimonious, pharisaical, pietistical, pharisaic, pious, pietistic, self-opinionated, self-centered, ego-minded, more...

Opposite:
humble, humble-minded, self-effacing

Types:
sanctimonious, self-important, smug, self-satisfied, pious, holier-than-thou, more...

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    gray,     beige,     white,     black,     maroon, more...


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Similar:
holier-than-thou, sanctimonious, pharisaical, pietistical, pharisaic, pious, pietistic, self-opinionated, self-centered, ego-minded, more...

Opposite:
humble, humble-minded, self-effacing

Types:
sanctimonious, self-important, smug, self-satisfied, pious, holier-than-thou, more...

Colors:
    gray,     beige,     white,     black,     maroon, more...



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