self-righteous

The conservative commentators’ vitriol is oddly cloaked in a self-righteous insistence that they are exposing some deep dark secret of Tim Walz and therefore on a bizarre level, supposedly protecting children or the disabled.

Amid the invasion of Iraq, when self-righteous stupidity was en vogue, neoconservatives Richard Perle and David Frum wrote "An End to Evil: How to Win the War on Terror," a paean to redemptive violence as a cure for violence.

I never felt like I was allowed to cry, that I was allowed to be scared of something, that I was allowed to be self-righteous about something, that I was allowed to be petty if I wanted to be petty.

I hope the kids in kaffiyehs enjoy camping out in the spring sunshine, but they need to realize that chanting “from the river to the sea” and wallowing in their own self-righteous “solidarity” is not going to change the world.

She can come across as self-righteous, judgmental and at times naïve.