self-righteously
With pious superiority
In a manner showing smug certainty about one's own moral superiority.
Someone who speaks self-righteously delivers judgments with an air of being above reproach: She self-righteously informed everyone she'd never let her children watch television.
The word implies the speaker finds the attitude insufferable or hypocritical.
Feigning moral superiority
- holier-than-thouSmugly moralistic toward others
- condescendingSuperior and dismissive manner
- censoriousSeverely critical in judgment
- moralisticProne to lecturing others
disapproving · finger-wagging · preachy · moralizing · priggish · puritanical · pharisaical · pontificating
With excessive self-satisfaction
- condescendinglyWith arrogant superiority
- haughtilyWith disdainful superiority
- arrogantlyWith excessive pride
- pompouslyWith showy self-importance
superciliously · patronizingly · disdainfully · snobbishly · imperiously · loftily · high-and-mighty · contemptuously
With hypocritical moral superiority
- insincerelyWithout true feeling
- disingenuouslyWith pretended ignorance
- two-facedInsincere and deceptive
- duplicitouslyWith deliberate dishonesty
falsely · dishonestly · performatively · ostentatiously · piously · virtuously · conveniently · selectively
Extremely angry, affronted
- affrontedInsulted or disrespected
- aggrievedFeeling unjustly wronged
- incensedExtremely angry
- offendedFeeling hurt or disrespected
fuming · wrathful · resentfully · huffily · umbrage · bristling · wounded · slighted
With sincere faith
- zealouslyWith extreme devotion
- ferventlyWith intense passionate feeling
- evangelicallyWith missionary zeal
- puritanicallyWith rigid moral strictness
religiously · reverently · solemnly · scriptural · morally · virtuously · godly · spiritually
sanctimonious
Feigning moral superiority
- holier-than-thouSmugly moralistic toward others
- condescendingSuperior and dismissive manner
- censoriousSeverely critical in judgment
moralistic · disapproving · finger-wagging · preachy · moralizing · priggish · puritanical · pharisaical · pontificating · smug
smugly
With excessive self-satisfaction
- condescendinglyWith arrogant superiority
- haughtilyWith disdainful superiority
- arrogantlyWith excessive pride
pompously · superciliously · patronizingly · disdainfully · snobbishly · imperiously · loftily · high-and-mighty · contemptuously · overbearingly
sanctimoniously
With hypocritical moral superiority
- insincerelyWithout true feeling
- disingenuouslyWith pretended ignorance
- two-facedInsincere and deceptive
duplicitously · falsely · dishonestly · performatively · ostentatiously · piously · virtuously · conveniently · selectively · double-standard
outraged
Extremely angry, affronted
offended · fuming · wrathful · resentfully · huffily · umbrage · bristling · wounded · slighted · insulted
devoutly
With sincere faith
- zealouslyWith extreme devotion
- ferventlyWith intense passionate feeling
- evangelicallyWith missionary zeal
puritanically · religiously · reverently · solemnly · scriptural · morally · virtuously · godly · spiritually · saintly
self-righteouslyhumbly
Without pride or arrogance
modestly · meekly · contritely · penitently · repentantly
self-righteouslynonjudgmentally
Without forming opinions
tolerantly · open-mindedly · charitably · compassionately · understandingly
self, righteous, righteousness, righteously, unrighteous, self-righteous, unrighteousness, self-righteousness