All 11 Uses of
righteous
in
Babbitt
- Babbitt spoke well—and often—at these orgies of commercial righteousness about the "realtor's function as a seer of the future development of the community, and as a prophetic engineer clearing the pathway for inevitable changes"—which meant that a real-estate broker could make money by guessing which way the town would grow.†
Chpt 4
- When he laid out the Glen Oriole acreage development, when he ironed woodland and dipping meadow into a glenless, orioleless, sunburnt flat prickly with small boards displaying the names of imaginary streets, he righteously put in a complete sewage-system.†
Chpt 4
- —don't faint with surprise if some of those rum-dumm liars get one good swift poke from Mike, with all the kick of God's Flaming Righteousness behind the wallop!†
Chpt 7 *
- Now this was the manner of obtaining alcohol under the reign of righteousness and prohibition: He drove from the severe rectangular streets of the modern business center into the tangled byways of Old Town—jagged blocks filled with sooty warehouses and lofts; on into The Arbor, once a pleasant orchard but now a morass of lodging-houses, tenements, and brothels.†
Chpt 8
- She was full of the joy of righteousness and bad temper.†
Chpt 10
- In a spasm of righteousness he flung his cigar-case out of the smoking-compartment window.†
Chpt 12
- Also, he was one of only nineteen speakers at the dinner with which the Chamber of Commerce celebrated the victory of righteousness.†
Chpt 14
- But the way of the righteous is not all roses.†
Chpt 14
- So silent—Oh, you righteous men!†
Chpt 20
- The three Vigilantes, formidable in their righteousness, stared at him in a taut silence.†
Chpt 32
- When Zenith's lone Conscientious Objector came home from prison and was righteously run out of town, the newspapers referred to the perpetrators as an "unidentified mob."†
Chpt 34
Definition:
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(righteous as in: a righteous cause) morally correct; or morally justified
or:
acting or feeling morally superior -- especially when it isn't true (this meaning is more typically seen as a compound word beginning with "self-")