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

By giving Haddix, who is convinced of the rightness of her feelings and the righteousness of her cause, space to talk, Goode does at least allow her some dimension.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 18, 2024

This does not mean that its rightness was always apparent, although careless historians and scientists often imply as much; it does mean that its rightness becomes incontestable, at least for a period of time.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton