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English
Etymology
self- + righteous
Adjective
self-righteous (comparative more self-righteous, superlative most self-righteous)
- Piously self-assured and smugly moralistic.
Derived terms
Translations
piously self-assured and smugly moralistic
- Bulgarian: самоуве́рен (bg) (samouvéren)
- Catalan: purità m, gata maula f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 自以為是／自以为是 (zh) (zìyǐwéishì)
- Danish: selvretfærdig
- Esperanto: farisea
- Finnish: omahyväinen (fi), hurskasteleva (fi), tekohurskas
- French: bien-pensant (fr)
- Galician: condescendente (gl)
- German: selbstgerecht (de)
- Hungarian: önelégült (hu), öntelt (hu), szenteskedő (hu), szentfazék (hu)
- Irish: ceartaiseach
- Italian: farisaico m
- Korean: 고지식하다 (ko) (gojisikhada)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: selvrettferdig, fariseisk
- Portuguese: farisaico (rare)
- Russian: самодово́льный (ru) (samodovólʹnyj), самоуве́ренный (ru) (samouvérennyj), ха́нжеский (ru) (xánžeskij), фарисе́йский (ru) (fariséjskij)
- Spanish: mojigato (es) m, creído (es), santurrón m, farisaico (es) m
- Swedish: egenrättfärdig (sv), självrättfärdig (sv)
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