self-righteous

Modifying Another Word

• so: Some people are so self-righteous they make you sick.
• too: Let's not get too self-righteous about this... our staffroom is pretty empty at lunchtime let alone any non-contact time teachers have.
• not: So long as music is not self-righteous, I don't pass too much judgment.
• rather: The Guardian published a rather self-righteous piece entitled " The myth of middle-class inflation.
• very: They had a lot of integrity and were very self-righteous but no-one was interested.
• extremely: People in football get extremely self-righteous when discussing the professional game.

Modifies a noun

• indignation: Much of Phil's self-righteous indignation seems to be directed at any such enterprise.
• anger: It's all self-righteous anger, I can figure that much.
• man: The self-righteous man makes for himself a bed of mire.
• people: You see, self-righteous people make two fatal mistakes.
• regular: Click here to go back It's all about keeping your tax costs under control Ignore the views of the self-righteous radio phone-in regulars.
• member: He understands computers self-righteous liberal members less is the to protect consumers.

Used with adjective complement

• feel: So often we feel self-righteous because we have worked hard and think that this ought to have gained us merit.
• become: That is grand but in practice fundamentalists have got a bad name as they tend to become self-righteous, narrow-minded, stubborn and bigoted.
• get: Let's not get too self-righteous about this... our staffroom is pretty empty at lunchtime let alone any non-contact time teachers have.