self-righteously in the Oxford Spanish Dictionary

Translations for self-righteously in the English»Spanish Dictionary

self-righteously [Am ˌsɛlf ˈraɪtʃəsli, Brit ˌsɛlfˈrʌɪtʃəsli] ADV

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Patience, forgiveness and comforting gestures, however, do not tend to characterize those who look down on others self-righteously or who approach them in a finger-wagging way.
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Or does such a myth help make us acquiescent, self-righteously smug?
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And the education culture does tend to be self-righteously certain of its own merit.
thetyee.ca
Dam builders and government officials self-righteously overlook the menace their ventures produce.
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Self-righteously judging them from our moral mountaintop might make us feel better, but it's a feeble victory.
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By so self-righteously pointing out the problem, they've unwittingly become its salvation.
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The police are not alone in this, nor in self-righteously broadcasting suspects' names to the world.
www.telegraph.co.uk
And it's all very well for me to get self-righteously annoyed about this but what are we going to do about it?
www.stuff.co.nz
Even in the past few years, garbage-mouth media types on the political right have scolded her self-righteously.
www.cbc.ca
Painting ourselves as good and behaving self-righteously actually results in using even greater coerciveness against others whose behavior mirrors what we are trying so hard to repress.
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