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unrighteous /ʌnˈrʌɪtʃəs /adjective formalNot righteous; wicked: vicious and unrighteous passions (as plural noun the unrighteous) the expectation that God would punish the unrighteous...- War will not be a holy war between the purely righteous and the totally unrighteous, between the godly and the ungodly, between good and evil.
- To call the steward dishonest, shameful, unjust, unrighteous, or wicked is too harsh.
- Unfortunately, I am not responsible for the failings of my predecessors, who set up the supply systems and who were as unrighteous as I am righteous.
Derivatives unrighteously /ʌnˈrʌɪtʃəsli/ adverb ...- Sounds like the peace activist was unrighteously whacked by a sniper who was handled by Israeli justice (8 year prison stretch).
- Shakuni defeated me by cheating unrighteously.
- Calvin put it like this: ‘Those things which are vainly or unrighteously done by man are, rightly and righteously, the works of God!’
unrighteousness /ʌnˈrʌɪtʃəsnəs/ noun ...- Folks, we will reap what we have sown, and we have sown seeds of immorality and unrighteousness and we are reaping the havoc and consequences of our actions.
- I thank you that you forgive and cleanse me of all unrighteousness, and that you restore the joy of my salvation!
- The one thing that is wrong with this world is its terrible state of unrighteousness.
Origin Old English unrihtwīs (see un-1, righteous). |