All 8 Uses of
righteous
in
Main Street
- Their rebuffs made her haughty; her haughtiness irritated them to franker rebuffs; they were working up to a state of painfully righteous war when they were saved by the coming of food.†
Chpt 7
- Cyrus N. Bogart, son of the righteous widow who lived across the alley, was at this time a boy of fourteen or fifteen.†
Chpt 9
- Most places that have lost the smell of earth but not yet acquired the smell of patchouli—or of factory-smoke—are just as suspicious and righteous.†
Chpt 13
- He hymned the old unhappy wars in which he had been Achilles and the mellifluous Nestor, yet gone his righteous ways unheeded by the cruel kings….†
Chpt 21
- The righteous widow glared, banged into the house, came out poking at her bonnet, marched away.†
Chpt 32
- And that's what I told Professor Mott, too, being superintendent—and he's a righteous man, not going autoing on the Sabbath like the school-board members.†
Chpt 32
- This contact with righteousness has about done me up!†
Chpt 32 *
- She felt oozing through the walls the spirit of small houses and righteous people.†
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-")