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  • In France and Italy, the words for "left"—gauche and sinistra—came to have deeply negative overtones, while their right-hand counterparts rang of righteousness, dexterity, and correctness.   (source)
    righteousness = virtue
  • And don't think we've gone all righteous.   (source)
    righteous = morally correct
  • You need to really want to cause pain — to enjoy it — righteous anger won't hurt me for long — I'll show you how it is done, shall I?   (source)
    righteous = morally justified
  • The father of the right-righteous shall greatly rejoice; and he that begetteth a wish child shall have joy of him.   (source)
    righteous = morally correct
  • All I ask for is a little of your time, and you want to get all righteous on me.   (source)
    righteous = morally correct (concerned with moral behavior)
  • And I—My husband is a good and righteous man.   (source)
    righteous = virtuous
  • But the rebels had righteous anger working for them, which could be a better weapon than mere combat skills,   (source)
    righteous = morally justified
  • My goodness, you didn't think you could live the righteousness of God on your own, did you?   (source)
    righteousness = morally correct behavior
  • ...colored with righteous resentment at what could have been his cowardice, or stupidity or bad luck   (source)
    righteous = justified (or feeling justified)
  • Get thee behind the face of Righteousness as we Glorify His Holy Name!   (source)
    righteousness = morally correct behavior
  • And despite my show of righteousness, for all my talk of propriety and discretion, I stayed within earshot.   (source)
  • Bravery and righteousness--those are two things that cannot go unrewarded in the sight of the Lord.   (source)
  • …space for a brother and sister, though sadly not a room they could share, but Saeed could stay with him and some other men on the floor of the living room, provided that is he did not mind sleeping on the floor, and Nadia could stay upstairs with the women, unfortunately even he and his own wife were split up in this manner, and they were among the first residents, but it was the only civilized way to cram as many people into the house as they had managed to do, as was righteous to do.   (source)
    righteous = morally correct
  • The life force of each tree seemed to bear down on me with righteous hatred, accusing me of so many crimes….   (source)
    righteous = felt to be morally justified
  • "Nevertheless we, according to His promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness," he quoted.   (source)
    righteousness = morally correct behavior
  • No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until "justice rolls down like waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream."   (source)
  • I laid a pallet for Mr. Taylor in Uncle Willie's room and crawled under Momma, who I knew for the first time was so good and righteous she could command the fretful spirits, as Jesus had commanded the sea.   (source)
    righteous = virtuous
  • Has Alfred strayed from the path of righteousness?   (source)
    righteousness = morally correct behavior
  • Enveloped in an aura of righteousness and unyielding principles, Miss Brent sat in her crowded third-class carriage and triumphed over its discomfort and its heat.   (source)
  • The Director's voice vibrated with an indignation that had now become wholly righteous and impersonal–was the expression of the disapproval of Society itself.   (source)
    righteous = with a feeling of moral superiority
  • What have I done to deserve such a fate, I who have tried to walk in meekness and righteousness all my days.   (source)
    righteousness = moral correctness
  • The righteous is not innocent of the deeds of the wicked,   (source)
    righteous = someone behaving in a morally correct manner
  • Rochester, if ever I did a good deed in my life — if ever I thought a good thought — if ever I prayed a sincere and blameless prayer — if ever I wished a righteous wish, — I am rewarded now.   (source)
    righteous = virtuous
  • When I think that these precious souls are to-day shut up in the prison-house of slavery, my feelings overcome me, and I am almost ready to ask, "Does a righteous God govern the universe?"   (source)
    righteous = morally correct
  • ...as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said "the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether."   (source)
    righteous = good (morally correct, or adhering to moral principles)
  • Or perhaps it was righteousness.†   (source)
  • A boy at Schulpforta once described for Werner a rally at Nuremberg: an ocean of banners and flags, he said, masses of boys teeming in the lights, and the fuhrer himself on an altar a half mile away, spotlights illuminating pillars behind him, the atmosphere oversaturated with meaning and anger and righteousness, Hans Schilzer crazy for it, Herribert Pomsel crazy for it, every boy at Schulpforta crazy for it, and the only person in Werner's life who could see through all that stagecraft was his younger sister.†   (source)
  • A look of sly righteousness spread over his face.†   (source)
  • We were instructed to wear "the breastplate of righteousness"; our faith was a "shield"—against "all the flaming darts of the evil one."†   (source)
  • Get back here in the name of justice and righteousness!†   (source)
  • "And so after years of tribulation and pain, she walked in righteousness and peace until the end of her days" (Book of Lamentations, Mary 13:1).†   (source)
  • My righteousness deflated, I gulped down my giant Styrofoam cup of coffee and drove to my assigned area.†   (source)
  • There was a faint but definable smell of cleanser, the kind that can irritate your nose with the smell of its own righteousness for weeks, even months, after it has been used.†   (source)
  • And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men everywhere to repent: Because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given as-surance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead.†   (source)
  • Don't you ever accuse me of that again," the president concluded righteously.†   (source)
  • righteously, but there's no way he can chase her down because traffic is totally stopped, Y.T. is the only thing for miles around that is actually capable of movement.†   (source)
  • He restoreth my soul: He leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for His name's sake...That's how far I was in the prayer when I heard the water for the first time.†   (source)
  • Did the legend not say: "And his word shall carry death eternal to those who stand against righteousness."†   (source)
  • And any leftover righteousness could be beaten down with a strong stick.†   (source)
  • I wanted them all to know everything about me: my intellect, my beauty, my righteousness.†   (source)
  • Terrorism is real, evil is real, this war is real and real men and women are in this fight because righteousness and freedom are worth fighting for.... Sincerely, The Angry American†   (source)
  • Russell said, "We have to convince the lawyers of the path of righteousness."†   (source)
  • This seemed to be meant as a sanctimonious gesture of righteousness, as if the obscenity were a teenage girl's bare flesh rather than her bleeding corpse.†   (source)
  • Righteousness?†   (source)
  • If she can just keep Lavar's faith in God and in righteousness living intact for a little longer, blessings: will come.†   (source)
  • Franz's associations were familiar metaphors: the sun of righteousness, the lambent flame of the intellect, and so on.†   (source)
  • Great in his harsh judgment and traditional background and early American righteousness and great in his quibbling fear and dark shame and great and sad and miserable in his dread of physical contact and in a thousand other torments too deep to name.†   (source)
  • I fully intended to pop Father Michael's bubble of incensed righteousness and get back to the spot I'd been in before he arrived.†   (source)
  • Moody, in his Islamic righteousness of the previous months, had complained about Essey's laxity in covering herself and had pointed to Nasserine as a paragon of virtue.†   (source)
  • Bathe in the wine of righteousness, or you shall be bathed in fire!†   (source)
  • He crowned Maude Merrill with a crown of righteousness.†   (source)
  • Her righteousness is getting damn irritating.†   (source)
  • It had a black border and was long and fancy, beginning, Asleep in Jesus, blessed sleep From which none ever wake to weep.... Mrs. Mattie Lou Blakeslee, a sacred mother of Israel, has gone to receive the crown of righteousness which God has promised to all those who love His appearing.†   (source)
  • I was shamed by their choice, and my rage became my righteousness.†   (source)
  • And against the advice of his dear deceased mother, Mo decided to take advantage of the moment and forgo righteousness.†   (source)
  • She had ordered him out of her office, and had sat in incredulous horror before the fact that the most vicious statement she had ever heard had been uttered in a tone of moral righteousness.†   (source)
  • I have enough of the philosopher in me to love righteousness for its own sake.†   (source)
  • Let me wield it in righteousness.†   (source)
  • Somehow the yeshiva team had translated this afternoon's baseball game into a conflict between what they regarded as their righteousness and our sinfulness.†   (source)
  • In media photographs and video he appeared to me as an ambitious minority politician and what being one had always meant-the adjutant interest groups, the unwavering agenda, the stridency, the righteousness.†   (source)
  • Later on, however, it produces a harvest of righteousness and peace for those who have been trained by it; This is so true!†   (source)
  • Censorship is fear clothed in the guise of misguided righteousness.†   (source)
  • "Let the oppressed, who have a case at law, come and stand before this my image as King of righteousness," he wrote.†   (source)
  • "There is nothing pleasant" about soldiering, wrote a corporal from Ohio, but "I can endure its privations ...for there is a big Idea which is at stake ...the principles of Liberty, of Justice, and of the Righteousness which exalteth a Nation."†   (source)
  • But we all know that if it ever comes to fighting between Christian and heathen, Armor-of-God will stand on the side of righteousness.†   (source)
  • I had seen others who approached my level of righteousness but none of them was really in my league.†   (source)
  • 'Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled.†   (source)
  • Mother's little brothers used to delight in hiding in the hay where they could listen to Grandpa pray, and he on his side would be sure to get all their names in when he was asking for forgiveness and beg the Lord to be patient with them, whatever had been their sinful ways, and lead them into righteousness before it was too late.†   (source)
  • DRUMMOND The use of this title prejudices the case of my client: it calls up a picture of the prosecution, astride a white horse, ablaze in the uniform of a militia colonel, with all the forces of right and righteousness marshaled behind him.†   (source)
  • "I mean—righteousness," the Old Man said.†   (source)
  • The breastplate of righteousness and the helmet of salvation.†   (source)
  • The teachings of the enlightened Buddha contain much, it teaches many to live righteously, to avoid evil.†   (source)
  • ...Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness.†   (source)
  • More especially we pray for thy holy Church universal; that it may be so guided and governed by thy good Spirit, that all who profess and call themselves Christians may be led into the way of truth, and hold the faith in unity of spirit, in the bond of peace, and in righteousness of life.†   (source)
  • Now let none of us in any section look with prideful righteousness on the troubles in another section or the problems of our neighbors.†   (source)
  • violate my oath of office by voting in favor of a proposition that means the surrender by Congress of its sole right to declare war...If my refusal to do this is contrary to the wishes of the people of Nebraska, then I should be recalled and someone else selected to fill the place...I am, however, so firmly convinced of the righteousness of my course that I believe if the intelligent and patriotic citizenship of the country can only have an opportunity to hear both sides of the question, all the money in Christendom and all the political machinery that wealth can congregate will not be able to defeat the principle of government for which our forefathers fought...If I am wrong†   (source)
  • The music that filled any town or city he entered was not the music of the saints but another music, infernal, which glorified lust and held righteousness up to scorn.†   (source)
  • And Emily Brent, placid and righteous, sat knitting.   (source)
    righteous = feeling virtuous
  • Blore said: "Hearts as hard as flints, these righteous spinsters!"   (source)
    righteous = feeling morally superior
  • Will not a righteous God visit for these things?   (source)
    righteous = morally correct
  • 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
  • Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.   (source)
    righteous = morally correct
  • Even with God's strength, the camerlegno had felt fear, questioning the righteousness of his path.†   (source)
  • She is America's voice of female righteousness.†   (source)
  • Gloating, righteousness, satisfaction, who can say?†   (source)
  • After all, even when everyone defecates righteously, there are villages upstream from us.†   (source)
  • They need to be brought back to the path of righteousness.†   (source)
  • She said this righteously, as if the mistakenness of this perception was self-evident.†   (source)
  • Bring them back to the path of righteousness.†   (source)
  • Nathan believed one thing above all else: that the Lord notices righteousness, and rewards it.†   (source)
  • How we wives and mothers do perish at the hands of our own righteousness.†   (source)
  • What do a girl's bravery and righteousness count for, unless she is also pretty?†   (source)
  • It's the word at the Smeath dinner table, stronghold of righteousness.†   (source)
  • It's irritating because one of life's true joys is being righteously angry about something.†   (source)
  • So poetic in retribution, so righteously violent.†   (source)
  • "To be loved for!" he said, his voice grating with mockery and righteousness.†   (source)
  • That is the path of righteousness, though after it but few inquires.†   (source)
  • I will not help you to preserve an appearance of righteousness where rights are not recognized.†   (source)
  • "Is that what you—" Philip started with automatic righteousness, but stopped and did not finish.†   (source)
  • This is the horror which Robin Hood immortalized as an ideal of righteousness.†   (source)
  • One of the men's voices spoke out, all gone with righteousness.†   (source)
  • With a feeling of real righteousness he talked back: "I didn't do one single thing to her.†   (source)
  • —the righteousness of those who suppress life!†   (source)
  • There was nothing in him of righteousness, hard doctrine.†   (source)
  • But I warn you well, I too can be driven to righteousness.†   (source)
  • It was not a matter of pride with him, and much less righteousness.†   (source)
  • Paxton could choose to fight, if he wanted, for righteousness' sake.†   (source)
  • He had nothing but his monstrous righteousness.†   (source)
  • And was it from living with Ben, too, that he'd learned that awful righteousness?†   (source)
  • When will she sit at the feet of Jesus, clothed with the unsullied garments of his righteousness, the stain of blood washed from her hand, and her soul redeemed, and pardoned, and in her right mind?†   (source)
  • I remember the aggressiveness of the so-called flower children— yes, righteousness in the cause of peace, or in any other cause, is aggressive.†   (source)
  • "If that were true, which it is not," Sarayu countered, "then how many do you think lived righteously enough to enter our good graces?"†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • Even an Emperor may tremble before Muad'Dib, for he has the strength of righteousness and heaven smiles upon him.†   (source)
  • According to this interpretation, the king was enticed away from the path of righteousness by the cult of El, with its associated worship of Asherah-who is commonly associated with serpents, and whose symbol is a tree.†   (source)
  • I suppose, at least I have been taught, that it's a set of rules that you expected humans to obey in order to live righteously in your good graces.†   (source)
  • I saw that the righteousness of many of these demonstrators simply helped to harden the attitudes of those poor fools who supported the war.†   (source)
  • And then there was the business about "all nations," and—specifically—"our Queen"; I'm not an American anymore, but I still have trouble with the part that goes "grant unto thy servant ELIZABETH our Queen"; and to think that it is possible "to lead all nations in the way of righteousness" is utterly ridiculous!†   (source)
  • They don't produce one speck of wholeness or righteousness, and that is why they were nailed into Jesus on the cross.†   (source)
  • Was not Amos an extremist for justice: "Let justice roll down like waters and righteousness like an ever flowing stream."†   (source)
  • You have taken the first step on your path back to righteousness, however, and in light of that I shall permit you other visitors.†   (source)
  • He looked up, letting the cloudy, unsettled daylight shine for the last time on the all-too-vulnerable sun of his own righteousness.†   (source)
  • He hated the acridness in his mother's and father's relationship, the conviction of righteousness they each held on to with both hands.†   (source)
  • In that mood of lazy righteousness he wallowed in Guitar's bed, the same righteousness that had made him tail his mother like a secret agent when she left the house a week or so ago.†   (source)
  • I'm constantly appalled by the people's cries for righteousness when they have no idea, no concept, of how we have to deal.'†   (source)
  • I hope to be a good example to them so that when their generation takes our place, they will make better decisions and continue to pave the path toward righteousness and freedom.†   (source)
  • But his weapon had been the fundamental fury of his righteousness, and at that moment, I would have been hardpressed to decide whether he or Shay had come off looking worse.†   (source)
  • A heart I need for a son, a soul I need for a son, compassion I want from my son, righteousness, mercy, strength to suffer and carry pain, that I want from my son, not a mind without a soul!'†   (source)
  • That night, at the Twentieth Century meeting, when I heard an unspeakable evil being spoken in a tone of moral righteousness, I saw the root of the world's tragedy, the key to it and the solution.†   (source)
  • There was no answer, then Lawson cried suddenly, blindly, righteously, "In time of national peril, it is your duty to serve, suffer and work for the salvation of the country!"†   (source)
  • I don't like your attitude," said Boyle, in a sudden tone of righteousness, with a look which, in a barroom, would have signified a prelude to a fist fight.†   (source)
  • Where was their righteousness now?†   (source)
  • "It was a difficult decision to make," he said, with a moist, unfocused look of righteousness, to the panic-stricken president of the Atlantic Southern, "but I weighed the fact that you're a rich corporation, while the people of Germany are in a state of unspeakable misery.†   (source)
  • There it was-he thought, looking at his family-the nature of their pleas for mercy, the logic of those feelings they so righteously proclaimed as non-logical-there was the simple, brutal essence of all men who speak of being able to feel without thought and of placing mercy over justice.†   (source)
  • Mr. Weatherby's tone had a kind of placid righteousness, as if he were reciting a formula required to convey another meaning, clear to all of them; he was looking straight at Taggart, in special emphasis of the unstated.†   (source)
  • In a world that proclaims the non-existence of the mind, the moral righteousness of rule by brute force, the penalizing of the competent in favor of the incompetent, the sacrifice of the best to the worst —in such a world, the best have to turn against society and have to become its deadliest enemies.†   (source)
  • At first, I kept wondering how it could be possible that the educated, the cultured, the famous men of the world could make a mistake of this size and preach, as righteousness, this sort of abomination-when five minutes of thought should have told them what would happen if somebody tried to practice what they preached.†   (source)
  • Men had been pushed into a pit where, shouting that man is his brother's keeper, each was devouring his neighbor and was being devoured by his neighbor's brother, each was proclaiming the righteousness of the unearned and wondering who was stripping the skin off his back, each was devouring himself, while screaming in terror that some unknowable evil was destroying the earth.†   (source)
  • there is no righteousness in man.†   (source)
  • O Lord of Righteousness and Wrath!†   (source)
  • Louella!" he called faintly, hoping she would come upstairs and he could devil her into running to Loomis's and buying him an ice cream cone out of her pocket, but he heard her righteously bang a pot to him in the kitchen.†   (source)
  • Nirriti smiled and said, " 'Blessed are they who are persecuted for righteousness' sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.'†   (source)
  • This was a man whom God had raised in righteousness, whom God had chosen to do many mighty works, yet this man, beholding the vision of God's glory, had cried out: "Woe is me!†   (source)
  • And, we beseech thee, give us that due sense of all thy mercies, that our hearts may be unfeignedly thankful; and that we show forth thy praise, not only with our lips, but in our lives, by giving up our selves to thy service, and by walking before thee in holiness and righteousness all our days; through Jesus Christ our Lord, to whom, with thee and the Holy Ghost, be all honour and glory, world without end.†   (source)
  • Don't you think it's just possible that we, as a nation, have perhaps been crippled for world affairs by a slightly excessive sense of righteousness?†   (source)
  • All your reasons for righteousness will come down on your head like broken beams, and nevertheless you'll go on, because that's the law, son.†   (source)
  • Paxton would not murder, though possibly he might have once, in the days when he was hiring scabs or trucking black-market hogs; and despite his anger at all Hodge's house, he would not commit his old age to futile war, not even for righteousness' sake.†   (source)
  • A lot of righteousness.†   (source)
  • life, far away and trivial and sweet as a fairytale, a young girl's sorrows over trifling things, a mother's sweet and touching madness, a sailorboy walking through a wood with her, holding her hand with a sweet and ridiculous tenderness, and they made pictures with stones and he talked of the weather and she said with, oh, infinite righteousness, that she did not believe in indiscriminate kissing (but she was going to have an operation, and afterward, who knew?†   (source)
  • Righteousness!†   (source)
  • When other first-graders stood in the playground watching the older children play kickball and dodgeball and steal-the-sticks, learning the mystical secret of play by watching other people do it, Ollie Nuper, full of six-year-old righteousness which both his parents and his teachers admired, retreated to books.†   (source)
  • All righteousness.†   (source)
  • He restoreth my soul: He leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for His name's sake.†   (source)
  • He became a member of this legion of chivalry—young Galahad-Eugene—a spearhead of righteousness.†   (source)
  • To me, you were above good, above truth, above righteousness.†   (source)
  • To be bigoted you have to be absolutely sure that you are right and nothing makes that surety and righteousness like continence.†   (source)
  • It hugs the easy way of damning those whom it cannot understand, of excluding those who look different,and it salves its conscience with a self-draped cloak of righteousness.†   (source)
  • I shall not lower the dignity of this Court, nor the righteousness of the People's cause, by attempting to answer the silly, alien, communistic and dangerous ideas advanced by the defense.†   (source)
  • To this the artist had given special care, and he had succeeded in combining the elemental force of the old man with a somewhat professional make-up of self-discipline and righteousness, without prejudice to his profundity; and had made of him, all in all, a really charming old gentleman, fit to adorn any drawing room.†   (source)
  • In such cases as ours the very recklessness gives security as the strength of the desire seems to give the sanction of justice and righteousness.†   (source)
  • but actually whip, Mr Coldfield's conscience had set the brakes and, surrendering even his share of the cargo, he and the son-in-law had parted) who had entered hers and her family's life before she was born with the abruptness of a tornado, done irrevocable and incalculable damage, and gone on—a grim mausoleum air of puritan righteousness and outraged female vindictiveness in which Miss Rosa's childhood (that aged and ancient and timeless absence of youth which consisted of a Cassandra-like listening beyond closed doors, of lurking in dim halls filled with that presbyterian effluvium of lugubrious and vindictive anticipation while she waited for the infancy and childhood with whic†   (source)
  • The preachers said that it was no use blaming the government; that the hope of the Japanese people lay in repenting their sinful past and relying on God: "Seek ye first the Kingdom of God, and His righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.†   (source)
  • It was as if some Inspector General of Police in a very distant part of Africa were to send out his superintendents into the jungle, asking them to come back next Christmas with all the savage chiefs whom they had brought to righteousness.†   (source)
  • The man answered then, "It is the rich and the gentry of the town who do it, and some do it for a good deed for the future, that by saving lives they may get merit in heaven, and some do it for righteousness that men may speak well of them."†   (source)
  • He felt that he must have progressed far upon the path of righteousness if he had been able to teach a point of virtue to his teacher.†   (source)
  • Blessed are they who hunger and thirst after righteousness sake for they shall do something or other he couldn't remember.†   (source)
  • And the fact that he is left free to administer it must be counted as righteousness in a society that may in other respects not be righteous.†   (source)
  • To Granny, I had accomplished a miracle and some of my sinful qualities evaporated, for she felt that success spelled the reward of righteousness and that failure was the wages of sin.†   (source)
  • First, I had to enlist Adam on the side of righteousness by getting him to agree to swear out a warrant for Coffee.†   (source)
  • I the Lord have called thee in righteousness and will hold thine hand and will keep thee and give thee for a covenant of the people for a light of the Gentiles To open the blind eyes to bring out the prisoners from the prison And them that sit in darkness out of the prison house.†   (source)
  • Leonard, beaten by a boy in a play of wits, or in an argument for justice, would assert the righteousness of his cause by physical violence.†   (source)
  • A lifelong advocate of a union of the two great English-speaking (sic) nations, making together irresistibly for peace, truth, and righteousness in a benevolent but firm authority over the less responsible elements of civilization, he passed, the Catholic man, pleasantly dedicated to the brave adventuring of minds and the salvaging of mankind.†   (source)
  • He had no fixity of purpose, no anchor of righteousness that held him.†   (source)
  • "Cold" Boston was alive with the fire that is always hot in her heart for righteousness and truth.†   (source)
  • This contact with righteousness has about done me up!†   (source)
  • She was full of the joy of righteousness and bad temper.†   (source)
  • Hear me, when I call, O God of my righteousness.†   (source)
  • That was all her prayer—not for his soul or his righteousness, but that he might not be wasted.†   (source)
  • The three Vigilantes, formidable in their righteousness, stared at him in a taut silence.†   (source)
  • In a spasm of righteousness he flung his cigar-case out of the smoking-compartment window.†   (source)
  • And ill....She is seeking righteousness, she is pure.†   (source)
  • VIVIE [with biting irony] "A power, not ourselves, that makes for righteousness," eh?†   (source)
  • So that our people still believe in righteousness, have faith in God and weep tears of devotion.†   (source)
  • But neither could she doubt the righteousness of the prayer that was being read on bended knees.†   (source)
  • It may be so, to such as you who know no righteousness, and no appointment except Satan's.†   (source)
  • UNDERSHAFT [with biting contempt] You lust for personal righteousness, for self-approval, for what you call a good conscience, for what Barbara calls salvation, for what I call patronizing people who are not so lucky as yourself.†   (source)
  • Had Bert been more formidable, Martin might have killed him, but he could not face that buck-toothed and nickering righteousness.†   (source)
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  • Its rigid back and high armrests immediately forced me into a righteous posture.   (source)
    righteous = morally correct
  • 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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