rightness
Example Sentences
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The simile is arresting: modern European proponents of welfare-state liberalism likened to a dying class of 19th-century hereditary nobles, confident in their rightness and desperate to rest.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 5, 2025
His rightness for the role is a marvelous coup, considering it’s the fourth film in a four-decade-old franchise that’s tightly bonded to another once-distinguished dramatic actor, Leslie Nielsen, who originated the character of Lt.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2025
The second cost of diversity derives from how employees of color perceive the rightness of their employer’s actions, otherwise known as legitimacy.
From Salon ● Apr. 1, 2025
For its farewell, Olafsson played it more fluidly, but also with more confidence in the rightness of its hermitage.
From New York Times ● Feb. 8, 2024
The meeting adjourned with tempers still hot and both sides feeling absolute in the rightness of their position.
From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling
