Dean comes across as a bit of a self-righteous loner. From Wordnik.com. [THE WASP'S NEST] Reference
Malkovich is scarily funny in his self-righteous fury. From Wordnik.com. [Sam Shepard Tosses A Grenade] Reference
Just so you know, I am not a self-righteous skinny girl. From Wordnik.com. [Duchess Harris: Are Michelle Obama or Gabourey Sidibe Our Only Role Models?] Reference
But such logic is either disingenuous or self-righteous. From Wordnik.com. [MAIL CALL] Reference
If neither team from that self-righteous metropolis made it. From Wordnik.com. [Periscope] Reference
You can call me self-righteous, or harebrained or a windbag. From Wordnik.com. [A Physician's Lament] Reference
He was contrite, but he still managed to sound self-righteous. From Wordnik.com. [His Dark Journey] Reference
And these self-righteous morality junkies just can't get enough. From Wordnik.com. [Andy Ostroy: Will Prop 8 and Gay Marriage Derail the GOP This November?] Reference
I was such a self-righteous annoyance, invitations ceased anyway. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Losing] Reference
That's one of the perpetual ironies of such self-righteous clashes. From Wordnik.com. [Deepak Chopra: Who's Inside the Muslim Box?] Reference
People become more self-righteous and more suspicious of outsiders. From Wordnik.com. [Political Perils of a 'Big Sort'?] Reference
She is one of the new commissars, seething with self-righteous jargon. From Wordnik.com. [A Tough Lesson In Sexual Harassment] Reference
Unfortunately, self-righteous indignation can undermine good journalism. From Wordnik.com. [Greenhouse Simplicities] Reference
A style that had been called "authentic" was now described as "self-righteous.". From Wordnik.com. [Caught In Clinton's Shadow] Reference
A self-righteous man, a man of the law, takes grace and mercy for his greatest enemy. From Wordnik.com. [The Riches of Bunyan] Reference
They call him self-righteous, sleazy, a power-hungry political operator, a "shadow shogun.". From Wordnik.com. [It’s Hardball Season in Japan] Reference
You come off as self-righteous even when you feel passionately right about what you see is wrong. From Wordnik.com. [Marcia Reynolds: The Fine Art of Assertiveness] Reference
Too often such pretensions lead to stultifying prose, self-righteous bloviating, or empty propaganda. From Wordnik.com. [Can writers change the world? Steven V. Roberts, Anita Silvey and Bruce Feiler respond] Reference
Ultimately, the band shows that political music doesn't have to be confrontational and self-righteous. From Wordnik.com. [Anarchy From The U.K.] Reference
Too smug, perhaps; too self-righteous; too adept at the political skills of blurring sharp and painful edges. From Wordnik.com. [Problems At The Pentagon] Reference
"You've got a lot of nerve, strutting your stuff on the streets, then getting all self-righteous with me.". From Wordnik.com. [A Night of Furversion] Reference
Part of my mission in this blog is to declare that I am not lazy, self-righteous, entitled, selfish, or immature. From Wordnik.com. [Erica Daigle: Why Study English?] Reference
If the self-anointed saviors insist upon saving me, then save me from self-righteous hypocrites and opportunists. From Wordnik.com. [Save Us From Saviors] Reference
McNulty, we came to learn, wasn't merely a self-righteous insubordinate -- he was utterly self-destructive and myopic. From Wordnik.com. [High 'Wire' Act] Reference
To de Waal, such self-righteous indignation in a primate suggests that "human behavior has very old evolutionary roots.". From Wordnik.com. [My Fair Monkey] Reference
For him at his self-righteous worst, there's the aftermath of his interview with Charlton Heston at the movie star's home. From Wordnik.com. [Son Of A Gun] Reference
The author thankfully avoids the pitfalls of a do-gooder memoir -- he's not self-righteous or overly pious in his storytelling. From Wordnik.com. [PERISCOPE] Reference
But it's hard for me to get too self-righteous about this — and not just because some of these people doing so are my friends. From Wordnik.com. [A Broker’s Best ‘Friend’] Reference
Men such as George Stephanopoulos regarded the new vice president as a pompous, self-righteous phony with a tin ear for politics. From Wordnik.com. [Gore's World] Reference
Being an American now means being arrogant, self-righteous and believing in our supremacy over all people, organizations and ideals. From Wordnik.com. [Mail Call: The Butcher Of Iraq] Reference
The Foxies are bullying people again using the cultural center and self-righteous pandering to public concern for the 9/11 families. From Wordnik.com. [Alan Singer: From Nine to Ten and the Commemoration of 9/11] Reference
Let us again try and see whether we can not devise some way to overcome the united forces of self-righteous Republicans and unrighteous. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States] Reference
Mr. Warr kept his word, but he grew insufferably self-righteous, and preached total abstinence to everybody, from Darco to the call-boy. From Wordnik.com. [Despair's Last Journey] Reference
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