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Definition of Self-righteously
1. Adverb. In a sanctimonious manner. "She was sanctimoniously criticizing everybody"
Definition of Self-righteously
1. Adverb. In a self-righteous manner ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Self-righteously
Literary usage of Self-righteously
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Thoughts at Fourscore, and Earlier: A Medley by Thomas Cooper (1885)
"He knew that nothing can be more fatal to the success of any petition that we
present before God, than for us to present it self-righteously. ..."
2. An Exposition of the Ninth Chapter of the Epistle to the Romans by James Morison (1888)
"Can an unborn babe —considered without respect to its future good or evil deeds—be
a fit representative of self- righteously impenitent Jews or Gentiles ? ..."
3. The Mastery of Nervousness Based Upon Self Reeducation by Robert Sproul Carroll (1917)
"... who has made the revolutionising decision that all events, great and small,
shall be reacted upon by his inner-self righteously, wholesomely, ..."
4. Dealignment: A New Foreign Policy Perspective by Mary Kaldor, Richard A. Falk, Gerard Holden (1987)
"During the Reagan presidency, the American political orientation has become
self-righteously ideological, promoting a tendency to claim a comparable ..."
5. Afternoons in the College Chapel: Short Addresses to Young Men on Personal by Francis Greenwood Peabody (1898)
"Soberly as regards one's self, righteously as regards one's neighbors, godly as
regards one's religion, — that is the complete description of the Christian ..."
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