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UK
/ʌnɹˈaɪtʃəs/
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ADJECTIVE
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not righteous
an unrighteous law
an unrighteous man
How To Use unrighteous In A Sentence
- The unrighteous penny corrupts the righteous pound.
- Bringing a child that she and Nelson had created into a world of war, famine, death, and unrighteousness did not sound like something Geneva wished to do.
- Now, the announcement is nanarupam; it is also prithak; and lastly, it is viprasthitam or contradictory, for, as the commentator points out, that which a particular asrama announces to be righteous is according to another unrighteous. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12
- Unrighteousness is unto sin; the sinful acts confirm and strengthen the sinful habits; one sin begets another; it is like the letting forth of water, therefore leave it before it be meddled with. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
- I thank you that you forgive and cleanse me of all unrighteousness, and that you restore the joy of my salvation!
- And the righteous and elect shall be saved on that day, and they shall never thenceforward see the face of the sinners and unrighteous.
- Meetings of her syndicate were bedlams of unrighteous innuendo all directed at her. THE DISPOSSESSED
- She is, in short, a woman of contradictions, and refreshingly, unfashionably unrighteous.
- Unfortunately, I am not responsible for the failings of my predecessors, who set up the supply systems and who were as unrighteous as I am righteous.
- Most decent British and American citizens, not loath to protest against unrighteous war nor to fight for a just cause, want and deserve better than this.