self-righteous

MacGruber starts the sketch self-righteous, noting that the “rich and powerful have lived by a different set of rules than the rest of us.”

"The main part of it when it comes to religion is being right with God, rather than being self-righteous."

At international forums, Indian officials have adopted a self-righteous tone, which plays well in India but wins few friends in the West.

“I know James isn’t going to take the impression in a more self-righteous or shrill direction,” he says—not because “SNL” is playing things safe, but because the bit simply wouldn’t be as funny.

“When I made movies,” he said, “one of the things that kept me from being too self-righteous is my memory of the Japanese kids who were in my class one day, then gone the next.”