Example Sentences

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Goodell has long self-righteously insisted that his role as commissioner is to maintain “public confidence” in the game.

From Washington Post • Oct. 18, 2021

Amy Jo Burns’ debut novel, “Shiner,” takes that setting and its tensions — faith versus reality, peril and those who self-righteously toy with it — and gives it a smart, stylish update.

From Los Angeles Times • May 7, 2020

The briefer explains that, when person A trolls person B, the actual target is person C, who will self-righteously overreact.

From The Guardian • Dec. 8, 2016

“Someone died on your watch, Captain,” the prison warden Caputo says, self-righteously, to the dehumanizing monster whom he had left alone to oversee the callous new guards.

From The New Yorker • Jul. 4, 2016

Tommy Baseomb unrolled the contract and thrust it under Snuffy’s nose, and Snuffy sniffed it and then squinched down his eyebrows, pretending to study the various clauses the regional director so self-righteously proffered.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols