self-righteous

形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Piously self-assured and smugly moralistic.
    — Near-synonyms: smug, complacent; sanctimonious
  2. Patronizingly moralizing and rebuking.

词形变化

more self-righteous comparative most self-righteous superlative

词汇关系

近义词
holier-than-thou
衍生词
self-righteously self-righteousness
相关词
virtue signalling

词源

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *swé?
Proto-Indo-European *selbʰ-der.
Proto-Germanic *selbaz
Old English self
Old English self-
Middle English self-
English self-
English righteous
English self-righteous
From self- + righteous.
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