All 3 Uses of
righteous
in
The Secret Life of Bees
- "Righteous indignation" is what Brother Gerald called it.
p. 87..7righteous = moral
- Jesus had righteous indignation when he turned over the tables in the temple and drove out the thieving moneychangers.
p. 87..7 *righteous = moraleditor's notes: Indignation is a synonym for anger.
- His conversations were all about the race riots in New Jersey, policemen taking their nightsticks to Negro boys who threw rocks, about Molotov cocktails, sit-ins, righteous causes, Malcolm X, and the Afro-American Unity group giving the Ku Klux Klan a taste of their own medicine.
p. 216..9righteous = morally justified
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-")