Sentence examples for righteous from inspiring English sources
righteous
To make righteous; specifically, to justify religiously, to absolve from sin.
The word "righteous" is correct and usable in written English. You can use it in various contexts to describe someone who is morally correct or has justly done something. Example sentence: His actions were righteous as he chose to donate to the homeless shelter rather than buy himself a new car.
In those days, sex and speed could not sell a Volvo, but righteous piety could.
I did sing about angels, I did sing 'I am the resurrection', but I felt righteous in them days".
The modest sound of a damehood, however – along with the righteous spectacle of a gender imbalance being corrected – still ensures that the average new dame will find the world beaming right back at this purported triumph for equality/the working classes/her grandchildren.
Ibrahim Ahmed gives a fine performance as a martyred herdsman, while Sissako rustles up a rich and nuanced overview of a nation in crisis, swinging gracefully from gentle satire to righteous rage.
I wish it were not so, but it is, and when Peter Carey asks if it's even a free speech issue, and calls PEN self-righteous for taking it up, and then attacks the entire nation of France for its arrogance; and when Teju Cole says that Israel is the cause of anti-semitism; then you have some very unfortunate bedfellows indeed.
From busy roads to quiet estate pathways, canal towpaths to back streets, they move with astonishingly little regard for anyone else, leaving old and young, pedestrians and fellow two-wheelers spinning in their self-righteous wake.
In such a context, that the Paisleyites did not win more decisively last week was a comment on the profound distrust of vast layers of Northern Irish Protestant society for the intransigent and self-righteous politicians of the DUP.
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