self-righteously

1. 1.

   in a sanctimonious manner

   “she was sanctimoniously criticizing everybody”

   Synonymssanctimoniously

Questions about self-righteously

What does self-righteously mean?

self-righteously means "in a sanctimonious manner".

How many syllables are in self-righteously?

self-righteously has 5 syllables: sel-f-righ-te-ou-sly. The stress falls on "te".

What is another word for self-righteously?

Close synonyms include sanctimoniously. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is self-righteously a common word?

self-righteously is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.