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righteous
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righteous as in:  a righteous cause

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    Our cause is righteous.
    righteous = morally correct
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    I looked at his face, blazing with its righteous power.  (source)
    righteous = feeling morally justified
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    "Righteous indignation" is what Brother Gerald called it.  (source)
    Righteous = moral
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    She's the righteous one now I can feel myself start to shrink, to cower.  (source)
    righteous = morally correct
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    Get thee behind the face of Righteousness as we Glorify His Holy Name!  (source)
    Righteousness = morally correct behavior
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    who righteously claimed he had been bum rapped  (source)
    righteously = correctly
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    "My child," she cried, "unrighteous gains Ensnare the soul, dry up the veins.†  (source)
    unrighteous = morally wrong
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unrighteous means not and reverses the meaning of righteous. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    "Of church and lay," said the Friar; "and therefore, Sir Prior 'facite vobis amicos de Mammone iniquitatis'—make yourselves friends of the Mammon of unrighteousness, for no other friendship is like to serve your turn."†  (source)
    unrighteousness = immoral behavior
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unrighteousness means not and reverses the meaning of righteousness. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    64:6 But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.†  (source)
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    Look at Aegisthus; he must needs make love to Agamemnon's wife unrighteously and then kill Agamemnon, though he knew it would be the death of him; for I sent Mercury to warn him not to do either of these things, inasmuch as Orestes would be sure to take his revenge when he grew up and wanted to return home.†  (source)
    unrighteously = not in a morally correct manner
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unrighteously means not and reverses the meaning of righteously. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    Don't weep, Judith, don't be overcome, Hetty, for the righteousest of us all must die; and when the time comes, lamentations and tears can't bring the dead to life.†  (source)
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    Maybe she is a customer, Hoo thought, recognizing the face clenched in righteous anger as that of a diner not being served fast enough.  (source)
    righteous = justified (or feeling justified)
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    Bravery and righteousness--those are two things that cannot go unrewarded in the sight of the Lord.  (source)
    righteousness = morally correct behavior
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    Its rigid back and high armrests immediately forced me into a righteous posture.  (source)
    righteous = morally correct
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    I had warned my comrades not to stop laying down the righteous beat until the song was over.  (source)
    righteous = wonderful
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    The Righteous Brothers, "Unchained Melody," possibly the most beautiful song I have ever heard, more hymnal than anything.  (source)
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