self-righteous

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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.

40 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: самоуве́рен (samouvéren) — piously self-assured and smugly moralistic
• Catalan: purità — piously self-assured and smugly moralistic
• Catalan: gata maula — piously self-assured and smugly moralistic
• Chinese Mandarin: 自以為是 /自以为是 (zìyǐwéishì) — piously self-assured and smugly moralistic
• Danish: selvretfærdig — piously self-assured and smugly moralistic
• Esperanto: farisea — piously self-assured and smugly moralistic
• Finnish: omahyväinen — piously self-assured and smugly moralistic
• Finnish: hurskasteleva — piously self-assured and smugly moralistic
• Finnish: tekohurskas — piously self-assured and smugly moralistic
• French: bien-pensant — piously self-assured and smugly moralistic
• Galician: condescendente — piously self-assured and smugly moralistic
• German: selbstgerecht — piously self-assured and smugly moralistic
• Hungarian: önelégült — piously self-assured and smugly moralistic
• Hungarian: öntelt — piously self-assured and smugly moralistic
• Hungarian: szenteskedő — piously self-assured and smugly moralistic
• Hungarian: szentfazék — piously self-assured and smugly moralistic
• Irish: ceartaiseach — piously self-assured and smugly moralistic
• Italian: farisaico — piously self-assured and smugly moralistic
• Kazakh: масайраған (masairağan) — piously self-assured and smugly moralistic
• Kazakh: масаттанған (masattanğan) — piously self-assured and smugly moralistic
• Kazakh: паңданған (pañdanğan) — piously self-assured and smugly moralistic
• Korean: 고지식하다 (gojisikhada) — piously self-assured and smugly moralistic
• Norwegian Bokmål: selvrettferdig — piously self-assured and smugly moralistic
• Norwegian Bokmål: fariseisk — piously self-assured and smugly moralistic
• Polish: pyszałkowaty — piously self-assured and smugly moralistic
• Polish: przemądrzały — piously self-assured and smugly moralistic
• Polish: zarozumiały — piously self-assured and smugly moralistic
• Polish: zadufany — piously self-assured and smugly moralistic
• Polish: zadufany w sobie — piously self-assured and smugly moralistic
• Portuguese: farisaico — piously self-assured and smugly moralistic
• Russian: самодово́льный (samodovólʹnyj) — piously self-assured and smugly moralistic
• Russian: самоуве́ренный (samouvérennyj) — piously self-assured and smugly moralistic
• Russian: ха́нжеский (xánžeskij) — piously self-assured and smugly moralistic
• Russian: фарисе́йский (fariséjskij) — piously self-assured and smugly moralistic
• Spanish: mojigato — piously self-assured and smugly moralistic
• Spanish: creído — piously self-assured and smugly moralistic
• Spanish: santurrón — piously self-assured and smugly moralistic
• Spanish: farisaico — piously self-assured and smugly moralistic
• Swedish: egenrättfärdig — piously self-assured and smugly moralistic
• Swedish: självrättfärdig — piously self-assured and smugly moralistic