Sample Sentences for
righteous
(editor-reviewed)

righteous as in:  a righteous cause

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    Our cause is righteous.
    righteous = morally correct
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    She's the righteous one now I can feel myself start to shrink, to cower.  (source)
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    "Righteous indignation" is what Brother Gerald called it.  (source)
    Righteous = moral
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    And don't think we've gone all righteous.  (source)
    righteous = morally correct
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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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    who righteously claimed he had been bum rapped  (source)
    righteously = correctly
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    It is wholly untrue, and unjust to ourselves, the pretence that the Annexation has been a measure of spoliation, unrightful and unrighteous—of military conquest under forms of peace and law—of territorial aggrandizement at the expense of justice, and justice due by a double sanctity to the weak.†  (source)
    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)
    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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    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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    Get thee behind the face of Righteousness as we Glorify His Holy Name!  (source)
    Righteousness = morally correct behavior
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    But you may prosper, for all that: there is no just God that governs the earth righteously, but a God of lies, that bears witness against the innocent.  (source)
    righteously = in a morally correct manner
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    Please help me, I pray, even though I don't believe in a white-bearded God who delivers justice to the unrighteous and mercy to the deserving.†  (source)
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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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    Its rigid back and high armrests immediately forced me into a righteous posture.  (source)
    righteous = morally correct
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    The Righteous Brothers, "Unchained Melody," possibly the most beautiful song I have ever heard, more hymnal than anything.  (source)
    Righteous = wonderful
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