virtue-signally

Example Sentences

• "І know you’re not reading this column, Ted [Wheeler], because we don’t advertise for indie rock festivals or vegan grocery stores in our magazine (I mean, we will if asked, but I don’t think Whole Foods wants to be placed next to Top 5 Ways To Buy Sex With Bitcoin). So, it is a tad virtue-signally for me to say this, but for real: fuck you, Ted, and fuck the smart car you rode in on."
• "Next year, I firmly resolve, I am going to be brave and send a mass text message on 1 December that says, I am saving myself and you the bother of cards this year and have made a donation to charity instead. Maybe you think this is selfish, maybe you think it is virtue-signally. I don’t know, I’m too tired. If you care, by all means strike my name from the record. I already feel so wildly free. Top o’ the season to ye!"
• "In Chapter 7 DESPISER, we documented Dan’s [i.e., Daniel Andrews’s] comments regarding tennis great Margaret Court, two years older than his mum, in which media commenter Rohan Dean said: “In the petty, petulance stakes, nothing, of course, could match the spoiled, mean-spirited, arrogant, virtue-signally narcissism of the Premier of Victoria parading in front of his sycophantic press groupies.”"
• "“It’s so ideological,” [Doug] Main said of council. “It’s trying to be pure and virtue-signally and making sure that [Justin] Trudeau and [Jagmeet] Singh are happy with what they’re doing. It’s just nuts.”"