RIGHTEOUS in a Sentence

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21 example sentences for RIGHTEOUS, such as:

1. I was obliged to stalk from the room in righteous fury.
2. I am expressing my righteous contempt for Commercialism.
3. They righteously maintain that they do not practise rationing.
4. She felt oozing through the walls the spirit of small houses and righteous people.
5. She was pink with righteous anger, her gentle eyes snapping fire, her nostrils quivering.

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 Meanings and Examples of RIGHTEOUS
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
righteous
 a.  morally justified; equitable; free from wrong, guilt, or sin
Classic Sentence: (18 in 2 pages)
1  "I never thought to live long enough to hear such disloyal words spoken of our Cause," went on Mrs. Merriwether, by this time in a ferment of righteous anger.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
2  She was pink with righteous anger, her gentle eyes snapping fire, her nostrils quivering.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIX
3  Their rebuffs made her haughty; her haughtiness irritated them to franker rebuffs; they were working up to a state of painfully righteous war when they were saved by the coming of food.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
4  Bogart, son of the righteous widow who lived across the alley, was at this time a boy of fourteen or fifteen.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
5  He hymned the old unhappy wars in which he had been Achilles and the mellifluous Nestor, yet gone his righteous ways unheeded by the cruel kings.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
6  The righteous widow glared, banged into the house, came out poking at her bonnet, marched away.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
7  She felt oozing through the walls the spirit of small houses and righteous people.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
8  He had proceeded with wisdom and from the most righteous motives under heaven's blue only to be frustrated by hateful circumstances.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
9  Yet midway my hope is, if righteous gods can do aught at all, thou wilt drain the cup of vengeance on the rocks, and re-echo calls on Dido's name.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK FOURTH
10  So all Etruria hath risen in righteous fury, and in immediate battle claim their king for punishment.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK EIGHTH
11  One man lives for his own wants and nothing else, like Mituh, he only thinks of filling his belly, but Fokanitch is a righteous man.
Anna Karenina 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 8: Chapter 11
12  I am expressing my righteous contempt for Commercialism.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
Context  Highlight   In ACT V
13  The dearth of strong moral character, of unbending righteousness, he felt, was their great shortcoming, and here he would begin.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In XII
14  He fought among his own, the low, the grasping, and the wicked, with that unbending righteousness which is the sword of the just.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In XII
15  "Cold" Boston was alive with the fire that is always hot in her heart for righteousness and truth.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XV.
Example Sentence:
1  Noah was a righteous man, the one blameless man of his time; he walked with God.
2  I was obliged to stalk from the room in righteous fury.
3  They righteously maintain that they do not practise rationing.