righteousness
Example Sentences
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So how is it that one can’t speak righteousness?
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 31, 2026
The service heard how she had lived with beauty, goodness and righteousness.
From BBC • Dec. 17, 2025
A theater can scarcely contain the love the audience develops for her, such is her determination and the righteousness of her quest.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 4, 2025
Instead, he seems as if he’s trying to lacquer on a veneer of righteousness to some very nasty business.
From Slate • Nov. 20, 2025
They both sat nodding in agreement, faces full of grim righteousness, uttering dire home truths and generally working themselves up into a fine old state of indignation.
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
Vocabulary lists containing righteousness
Figurative Language in King's "I Have a Dream" Speech (1963)
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Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" Speech (1963)
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Christmas Carol Vocab: A Lyrical Lexicon
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