rightness

Example Sentences

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We tend to believe that legality establishes rightness, establishes legitimacy.

From Slate • Feb. 3, 2026

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

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

“The one way to preserve and defend a place’s rightness is to inhabit it, intimate, knowledgeable, and vigilant as can be.”

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 8, 2023

I only knew that there was a certain rightness in life—the feeling you got when you did something the way you knew you should.

From "Dragonwings" by Laurence Yep