Example sentences for: self-righteous

How can you use “self-righteous” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Re your asinine column, are you always such a self-righteous snob?

  • The latest installment in the Grisham legal thriller franchise gets good press: It's "personal, moving and much deeper" than his previous books, writes Deirdre Donahue in USA Today . Critics say this one is better because Grisham goes beyond his usual dabbling in social causes and injects honest-to-God Christian spirituality, and with success: "Grisham's smart use of the suspense novel to explore questions of being and faith puts him squarely in the footsteps of Dickens and Graham Greene" ( Publishers Weekly ). A few reviewers find the overt Christianity preachy and self-righteous, but most say it improves an otherwise standard page-turner.

  • One moment these self-righteous men would force a woman to bear a child.

  • He is never self-righteous or showy about this.

  • But perhaps we could agree that David Schippers, the House Judiciary Committee Counsel, was wrong in his self-righteous pronouncement "Lies are lies are lies."


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