Self-righteous in a sentence as an adjective

Even the name humble bundle seems self-righteous to me, considering they are just a store.

Combative, self-righteous, with a ton of "burn things down" energy.

The only reason you are getting so self-righteous about it is because Google is giving you the option.

She clearly went after Swartz with a self-righteous zeal that was far divorced from the seriousness of the alleged crime.

I think both sides are doing a splendid job of bullying, no doubt glowing in the self-righteous pleasure of fighting against evil.

Perhaps he is admitting to us that "he thinks self-righteous blogging is more important than starvation and a lack of clean water".

Wow... How did HN become a den of self-righteous, humorless self-flagellation.

There's a fine line between being righteous and working to change people's hearts and minds, or just being smugly self-righteous to score imaginary Internet-points.

Conventional wisdom gets in a self-righteous huff over how the different Inquisitions censored books.

Arrington's self-righteous, dismissive diatribe here leaves me with exactly the opposite impression about him.

"self-righteousness attack on a very important tool is very misleading and ungrateful"Once again, self-righteous?

Maybe if you'd decided to keep reading instead of leaping to a self-righteous conclusion you'd have noticed that they called him a sociopath because of his attempts to hire hitmen not because he was involved in drug sales

I found this article confusing because the introduction -- the title, the SunOS history, the Longfellow quote, and Morton's quote -- all suggest a self-righteous position around technical integrity and engineering choices.

Instead of congratulating yourself for the transitory sadistic, self-righteous pleasure you obviously derive from making the developers you hired "deeply uncomfortable," try working with them.

Self-righteous definitions

adjective

excessively or hypocritically pious; "a sickening sanctimonious smile"

See also: holier-than-thou pietistic pietistical pharisaic pharisaical sanctimonious