rightness
Example Sentences
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I did just have this feeling of rightness.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
We tend to believe that legality establishes rightness, establishes legitimacy.
From Slate ● Feb. 3, 2026
The sensation of taste and the pleasure food brings versus the maintaining of a sense of rightness in how we pursue these pleasures.
From Salon ● Apr. 28, 2024
“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
There was a nail-hard strength in her, a lack of any compromise, a rightness in the face of all opposing wrongness, which made you hold her in a kind of awe but not in warmth.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
