How to Use righteous in a Sentence

righteous

adjective

• The saint in his cell reading about the righteous prophets and kings.
  — John Ganz, Harper's Magazine, 22 May 2024
• Friends, there is no cause more righteous than the right to vote.
  — Marty Roney, USA TODAY, 8 Mar. 2021
• And then there’s righteous anger — and with that anger, the risk of a crusade.
  — K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 24 Feb. 2021
• This made for the most righteous and lonely moment of the night.
  — Chris Richards, Washington Post, 5 Feb. 2024
• Her plan might be to stand by other than idly and still sleep the sleep of the righteous.
  — Mike Kerrigan, WSJ, 4 June 2021
• Rage can be righteous; lust can be thrilling; greed gets you all the good toys.
  — Jennifer Senior, The Atlantic, 9 Feb. 2022
• Those who did broach the scandal brought their righteous anger A-game.
  — Los Angeles Times, 19 May 2022
• The antiabortion zealots and righteous posers will try to find a way to stop that too, of course.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 27 July 2022
• Back in Oildale, Flossie still tried to put her boy on the righteous path.
  — Steven Gaydos, Variety, 10 Feb. 2022
• The film is a righteous but rough ride as far as activist docs go.
  — Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 4 Mar. 2021
• The teens, slouching from one end of the stage to the next, are unbearably self-righteous.
  — New York Times, 10 Apr. 2022
• But the self-righteous don't always put down their stones.
  — Heidi Stevens, Star Tribune, 22 Apr. 2021
• But the righteous anger of a breakup is one of the album's easier stances.
  — Jon Pareles New York Times, Star Tribune, 14 Jan. 2021
• The pop artist’s new album, Hold the Girl, is full of righteous anger, grace, and a spirit of searching.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 16 Sep. 2022
• In 2015, to Rogers’ righteous fury, the Supreme Court made up a new standard of law to strike down the state’s death penalty law.
  — Kevin Rennie, Hartford Courant, 15 June 2024
• It’s supposed to be, ‘Oh, big righteous babe falling for a man.
  — Jonathan Van Meter, SPIN, 8 Apr. 2023
• Dear Annie: The world is full of self-righteous people.
  — Annie Lane, oregonlive, 4 July 2021
• Her anger, while righteous, threatens to burn her alive.
  — Eliana Dockterman, Time, 22 Dec. 2020
• Jews, so long persecuted, had a righteous claim to the land.
  — Jane Eisner, Washington Post, 23 Feb. 2023
• Now that would be a righteous, rhythmic addition to the canon.
  — John Edward Hasse, WSJ, 14 May 2021
• And as a demand that has righteous anger deeply embedded in it.
  — Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Feb. 2024
• According to the Midrash, the righteous are converts for whom God feels a special love.
  — Rabbi Avi Weiss, sun-sentinel.com, 17 May 2021
• As fans of the franchise know, Raquel’s efforts to steer Kanan down a more righteous path prove to be a colossal failure.
  — Joshua Alston, Variety, 5 June 2022
• However, there is a large cohort that thinks the medicine must be taken and must be foul to be righteous.
  — Clem Chambers, Forbes, 7 July 2022
• Part of you could be attached to the idea of righteous vengeance, but that would likely leave you feeling hollow.
  — Tarot.com, Baltimore Sun, 11 Apr. 2024
• For scarcely for a righteous man will one die; yet perhaps for a good man someone would even dare to die.
  — Jill Gleeson, Country Living, 7 Apr. 2023
• To borrow from Scripture, none is righteous; no, not one.
  — Sarah Jones, Vulture, 18 Sep. 2021
• Madeleine was a forceful and righteous voice—and always helpful.
  — Rajiv J. Shah, Fortune, 12 Oct. 2023
• This is McQueen’s method: a passage of lyrical beauty, a chaser of righteous struggle.
  — Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2024
• Young people, in general, are particularly attuned to hypocrisies, which, in turn, kick up a sometimes errant, but oftentimes righteous, desire to rage against the machine.
  — Jay Caspian Kang, The New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Dec 2024