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Overrighteous

Overrighteous \O"ver*right"eous\, a. Excessively righteous; -- usually implying hypocrisy.

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overrighteous

a. Excessively righteous, perhaps hypocritically so.

Usage examples of "overrighteous".

Now that we are so willing to leave them to their overrighteous self-consciousness, they cry: "Crush our enemy, or they will subjugate us.

He was a stern, perhaps overrighteous man, though, as I suppose you know very well.