"Well, no," the candidate replied, "but I'm afraid if I say that, I'll sound too self-righteous."

Butters understands that this all has a way of sounding self-righteous, but Duke backs up its boasts.

At the risk of sounding a bit self-righteous myself, I call these grown-ups the Blame Generation.

I certainly didn't want to sound self-righteous about Calcutta's problems.

It is starting to sound self-righteous and it isn't working either.

In striking back at her critics, Madonna simply sounds self-righteous and smug.

But he can also be abrasive and sometimes he sounds self-righteous.

That was not my intention at all - and neither was it to sound self-righteous.

Most of the time, "Blue Chips" is too energetic to sound self-righteous.

As they used up their fuel of personal experience, the singer-songwriters began to sound redundant and self-righteous.