How to Use righteous in a Sentence

righteous

adjective

• The constant is the archetype of one righteous man with the courage to save the day.
  — Judy Berman, TIME, 20 Feb. 2025
• 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
• The belief is that the righteous will live through the coming year; the wicked will not.
  — The Conversation, oregonlive, 28 Sep. 2019
• So why does the 9 p.m. to 5 a.m. sleeper get to feel righteous?
  — Andy Benoit, SI.com, 3 Oct. 2019
• 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
• Many more clashes, righteous or not, are yet to come in the city.
  — A.r. | Chicago, The Economist, 23 Oct. 2019
• The first concept is righteous — and the second is racist.
  — Erik Brady, USA TODAY, 9 July 2020
• 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
• This got me to thinking about anger — righteous or not.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 24 Aug. 2020
• 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
• The nurse lets Moss pass, and the moment scans as a righteous victory.
  — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2024
• It’s supposed to be, ‘Oh, big righteous babe falling for a man.
  — Jonathan Van Meter, SPIN, 8 Apr. 2023
• As for Rip, his moments of righteous rage have been a highlight of the series.
  — Lynette Rice, Deadline, 15 Dec. 2024
• 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
• No one has won more self-righteous wars with himself than Urb.
  — Joseph Goodman | [e-mail], al, 19 Dec. 2019
• What will happen to all the resistance groups, the rallies and marches, and the righteous anger?
  — Lily Herman, Teen Vogue, 6 Feb. 2020
• My parents wouldn’t have survived without the help of some righteous Poles.
  — Martin Kimel, Baltimore Sun, 26 Jan. 2025

Last Updated: 13 Mar 2025