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Definition of righteous in English: righteousadjective ˈrʌɪtʃəsˈraɪtʃəs 1Morally right or justifiable. feelings of righteous indignation about pay and conditions Example sentencesExamples - Abraham and Sarah trusted the same God, and they were declared righteous.
- Today's text focuses on justification and our being made righteous before God.
- I strove harder to stay awake in church and be more righteous.
- But an opposition leader capable of righteous anger is essential for any democratic legislature.
- Where is there true reward and punishment in a world where so many innocent and righteous suffer while so many evil people seem to enjoy the good life?
- Now picture the reaction of those Pharisees who regarded themselves as holy, righteous, and pure but who looked down on any who didn't live up to their standards of holiness.
- I hope by now, you are inured to the fact that righteous indignation generates more email than gratitude.
- Your opponent comes out, quivering with righteous indignation, spoiling for a fight.
- Even though we're all flawed, we expect public figures to be morally righteous.
- Dualism is a tool of oppressors, fundamentalists and the morally righteous.
- His righteous indignation is quite understandable.
- Why are you all of a sudden so righteous about taking one little smoke?
- Did you know that righteous fury and blind hate are simply two sides of the same coin?
- Your hatred of the poor is just bigotry, sir, however you try to dress it as righteous indignation.
- Both offer the spectacle of an aggrieved man reacting with righteous rage.
- He did not state that obedience to the law makes one fully righteous before God in an eschatological sense.
- I've shared tears and anger, thoughtfulness and righteous indignation.
- Over the decades, his choice of roles has defined the perception we have of him as a decent, even righteous man of honour.
- Most of us, Dr. Godfrey said, don't even think of ourselves as righteous.
- Please take it as read that I am the last person to think that mere numbers make a cause righteous.
Synonyms good, virtuous, upright, upstanding, decent, worthy ethical, principled, moral, high-minded, law-abiding, just, honest, innocent, faultless, honourable, blameless, guiltless, irreproachable, sinless, uncorrupted, anti-corruption, saintly, angelic, pure, noble, noble-minded, pious, God-fearing justifiable, justified, legitimate, defensible, supportable, just, rightful well founded, sound, valid, admissible, allowable, understandable, excusable, acceptable, reasonable, sensible - 1.1 (of a person) morally good; virtuous.
he stood up for what he knew was right and died a righteous person victory in battle was conferred on the righteous
2US informal Very good; excellent. Example sentencesExamples - Evolution may be the personal mission of Ani 2003, but in a broader sense it's more of the same from Buffalo's righteous babe, and that's no slight.
- In the same book, the authors state that in order for external pathogenic qi to invade the tissue, correct or righteous qi must be weak, as is often the case in elderly or weakened patients.
- The self-proclaimed righteous babe is back with her 17th full-length album, and she certainly hasn't run out of ideas.
- Well, I will say that your muse sounds like a truly righteous babe.
- I've even been fortunate enough to have a few relationships with some righteous babes.
- When she plays at folk fest, the most righteous of babes will be playing solo once again.
- But if you're renting this, you're looking for righteous trash, and Tomcat Angels serves it up something fierce.
- 2.1 Correctly so called; genuine.
Example sentencesExamples - In the same book, the authors state that in order for external pathogenic qi to invade the tissue, correct or righteous qi must be weak, as is often the case in elderly or weakened patients.
- But if you're renting this, you're looking for righteous trash, and Tomcat Angels serves it up something fierce.
Derivatives adverb ˈrʌɪtʃəsli If the recipient was feeling truly, righteously indignant about the measly offer made by the allocator, however, then the only way to punish the allocator sufficiently is to reject the offer. Example sentencesExamples - Then again, it was Bhatt who first taught Indian environmentalists that it was not enough to righteously protest at destruction of one kind or another: they must also set about the process of reconstruction.
- One of their children has TB, and the family have to rely on handouts, mostly from Maggie's sister, the righteously bitchy Lily.
- This supposed solution to terrorism presumes that ‘good guy’ governments given unchecked power will righteously deploy it to shut down ‘bad guy’ armed groups.
- New Zealanders get righteously upset when foreigners talk about the likes of Tana Umaga and Jonah Lomu as ‘islanders’ when both were born in New Zealand, albeit to parents from Samoa and Tonga respectively.
Origin Old English rihtwīs, from riht 'right' + wīs 'manner, state, condition'. The change in the ending in the 16th century was due to association with words such as bounteous. Definition of righteous in US English: righteousadjectiveˈraɪtʃəsˈrīCHəs 1(of a person or conduct) morally right or justifiable; virtuous. feelings of righteous indignation about pay and conditions he is a good, righteous man, I am sure Example sentencesExamples - Why are you all of a sudden so righteous about taking one little smoke?
- Most of us, Dr. Godfrey said, don't even think of ourselves as righteous.
- Over the decades, his choice of roles has defined the perception we have of him as a decent, even righteous man of honour.
- Where is there true reward and punishment in a world where so many innocent and righteous suffer while so many evil people seem to enjoy the good life?
- Your opponent comes out, quivering with righteous indignation, spoiling for a fight.
- I strove harder to stay awake in church and be more righteous.
- Even though we're all flawed, we expect public figures to be morally righteous.
- Today's text focuses on justification and our being made righteous before God.
- Did you know that righteous fury and blind hate are simply two sides of the same coin?
- Abraham and Sarah trusted the same God, and they were declared righteous.
- His righteous indignation is quite understandable.
- Please take it as read that I am the last person to think that mere numbers make a cause righteous.
- Now picture the reaction of those Pharisees who regarded themselves as holy, righteous, and pure but who looked down on any who didn't live up to their standards of holiness.
- Your hatred of the poor is just bigotry, sir, however you try to dress it as righteous indignation.
- I've shared tears and anger, thoughtfulness and righteous indignation.
- He did not state that obedience to the law makes one fully righteous before God in an eschatological sense.
- I hope by now, you are inured to the fact that righteous indignation generates more email than gratitude.
- Both offer the spectacle of an aggrieved man reacting with righteous rage.
- But an opposition leader capable of righteous anger is essential for any democratic legislature.
- Dualism is a tool of oppressors, fundamentalists and the morally righteous.
Synonyms good, virtuous, upright, upstanding, decent, worthy justifiable, justified, legitimate, defensible, supportable, just, rightful 2US informal Very good; excellent. Example sentencesExamples - The self-proclaimed righteous babe is back with her 17th full-length album, and she certainly hasn't run out of ideas.
- But if you're renting this, you're looking for righteous trash, and Tomcat Angels serves it up something fierce.
- In the same book, the authors state that in order for external pathogenic qi to invade the tissue, correct or righteous qi must be weak, as is often the case in elderly or weakened patients.
- When she plays at folk fest, the most righteous of babes will be playing solo once again.
- Evolution may be the personal mission of Ani 2003, but in a broader sense it's more of the same from Buffalo's righteous babe, and that's no slight.
- Well, I will say that your muse sounds like a truly righteous babe.
- I've even been fortunate enough to have a few relationships with some righteous babes.
Origin Old English rihtwīs, from riht ‘right’ + wīs ‘manner, state, condition’. The change in the ending in the 16th century was due to association with words such as bounteous. |