Sentence examples for to righteous from inspiring English sources
verb
To make righteous; specifically, to justify religiously, to absolve from sin.
The response to righteous movie mayhem is always more visceral than philosophical.
Bling, opulence and luxury provoke powerful responses in an age of austerity, from wistful envy to righteous disgust.
Those emotions play roles in this unabashedly sentimental show, but they ultimately take a back seat to righteous flamboyance.
The quickest technical route to righteous Dadaism was to snip out printed images and compose them to comic, politically rhetorical, or naughty effect.
"Fair trade" charities and their celebrities could surely stir a lot of people to righteous anger over farm subsidies if they tried.
"She knows how to quiet me," he wrote, knowing full well that every extreme move he made provoked the family on whom he still depended to righteous despair.
Prince Kihangi, a civil society activist who will be on the jury in Bukavu, said: "The US wants to appear righteous to the rest of the world.
In the beginning, summers did give me a little more time to write, but they also gave me a lot of time to allow righteous indignation to fester.
He said, "The only way you're going to overcome is to apply righteous power".
Failing to be righteous asks oneself to be a failure.
"We think it's better to be righteous than relevant, better to be smug than successful.
