All 5 Uses of
righteous
in
Carrie, by Stephen King
- If only it would be today and Jesus coming not with a lamb and a shepherd's crook, but with a boulder in each hand to crush the laughers and the snickerers, to root out the evil and destroy it screaming-a terrible Jesus of blood and righteousness.†
righteousness = morally correct behavior
- who righteously claimed he had been bum rapped
*righteously = correctly
- There were many more religious pictures here, but there were more lambs and fewer scenes of righteous wrath.†
- Danny got on him about something, I don't know, marbles or something, and finally Peter just rose up righteous and beat the shit out of him.†
- There was a terrifying expression of righteous anger graven on her face.†
Definitions:
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(1)
(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-") -
(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Less commonly, righteous is used as a synonym for wonderful.