self-righteous

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And while he should have known better than provide an opportunity for obsequious and self-righteous compassion, his remark did point to a fundamental truth of investing.
如果儅時他說話更謹(jǐn)慎一些，這些逢迎附會、自以爲(wèi)是的同情心就不會有機會，但他的話的確揭露了一個投資的真相。
Yet, Jesus told the story of two men praying; one self-righteous and one humbled by his failures: “I tell you, this sinner, not the Pharisee, returned home justified before God.
然而，耶穌講了兩個禱告的故事，一個自以爲(wèi)是的，一個是因爲(wèi)失敗而謙卑的：“我告訴你們：這人廻家去比那人倒算爲(wèi)義了。
In the latest several months, I have met some persons with those eye expressions, and naturally attribute them to be self-righteous persons.
最近幾個月，我又見了許多的人，凡是具有這種眼神的人，我都把他們有意無意地歸到自以爲(wèi)是的那一類裡去。

Different quote. "Kagan is a self-righteous little man" Now I've got to tell you, that bit about being little, that really hurts.
不同的例証，“卡剛是一個自私的小人“,現(xiàn)在我必須告訴你們，說我小人的那句話，那真的很傷人。
耶魯公開課 - 死亡課程節(jié)選

Obama is revealing himself to be more like a Woodrow Wilson or Jimmy Carter, pinched and self-righteous.
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By castigating the press, the campaign was able to broadcast the family melodrama in a self-righteous manner.
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Thus far, Mr Neumann's tale seems unexceptional: pragmatic party elders must suffer self-righteous backbenchers in any parliament.
ECONOMIST: Mark Neumann, Republican hothead

believing that your ideas and behaviour are morally better than those of other people

If you describe someone as self-righteous, you disapprove of them because they are convinced that they are right in their beliefs, attitudes, and behaviour and that other people are wrong.
self-righteousness