self-righteous
adjEtymology
From self- + righteous.
Definitions
Piously self-assured and smugly moralistic.
- Near-synonyms: smug, complacent; sanctimonious
- And is it not possible, Mr. Hier, that people are reacting (in a contemptible way, certainly) against your self-righteous bawling?
- “God's blood, Thomas, self-righteous prickery is not the preserve of the English!”
Patronizingly moralizing and rebuking.
The neighborhood
- synonymholier-than-thou
- neighborvirtue signalling
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at self-righteous. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at self-righteous. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
7 hops · closes at self-righteous
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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