0 in a self-righteous way (= believing that your ideas and behaviour are morally better than other people's) : --
She makes gloves, and her rate of pay is 10p an hour, which is reminiscent of the cool system abroad which we used to deplore so self-righteously.
He was wallowing self-righteously in self-pity—and for what?
And if it was an inconvenience, we could tell ourselves self-righteously that we were doing it for the sake of our weaker brethren.
They profit from the official structure of institutionalized charity, while self-righteously priding themselves on their own benevolence.
The paper self-righteously took up the story, forcing the other newspapers to follow suit.
"I told you he couldn't cook," said Terry self-righteously.
Sometimes my mind self-righteously judges the people we meet.
