She’s a vegetarian, but she’s not at all self-righteous about it.
她是个素食者,但她并不以此来标榜自己。
—self-righteouslyadverbadv
—self-righteousness noun [uncountableU]
Examples from the Corpus
self-righteous• We have to learn tolerance, to look at our behaviour and to stop being self-righteous.• I've got nothing against vegetarians, but some of them are so self-righteous!• Bikeriders seems to have this self-righteous attitude toward people in cars.• This is the kind of self-righteous behaviour at which Mrs Thatcher's Government excels.• But Springer, the formermayor of Cincinnati, insists on offering a self-righteouslecture at the end of each program.• Ego is the self-righteousmartyr inside each of us.• In this self-righteousmood he drove home.• His grandparents were stern and self-righteous people.• He had entered the police station in a storm of self-righteousprotest and had been by turn hectoring, belligerent and spiteful.• She watched him in self-righteoussilence.• He doubted her policies and the self-righteous way in which they were promoted.