How to Use righteous in a Sentence

righteous

adjective

• This made for the most righteous and lonely moment of the night.
  — Chris Richards, Washington Post, 5 Feb. 2024
• 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
• 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
• It’s supposed to be, ‘Oh, big righteous babe falling for a man.
  — Jonathan Van Meter, SPIN, 8 Apr. 2023
• Jews, so long persecuted, had a righteous claim to the land.
  — Jane Eisner, Washington Post, 23 Feb. 2023
• And as a demand that has righteous anger deeply embedded in it.
  — Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Feb. 2024
• 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
• 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
• Madeleine was a forceful and righteous voice—and always helpful.
  — Rajiv J. Shah, Fortune, 12 Oct. 2023
• The long shift into a Canadian had turned him, Shura thought, more earnest, and a touch more righteous.
  — Sana Krasikov, The New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2022
• There were rigid, righteous arms, which the dancers held up, bent at the elbows before hinging their torsos over.
  — Gia Kourlas, New York Times, 11 June 2023
• This passage details the destruction of the wicked and God’s protection for the righteous.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 15 Aug. 2023
• Some were righteous, some dour, some relaxed and prone to levity.
  — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Aug. 2022
• The mail reaffirmed what Brian believed: His cause was righteous.
  — Eli Saslow Erin Schaff, New York Times, 19 Nov. 2023
• That callousness is enough to infuse him (and the audience) with some righteous fury.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 5 July 2022
• Christ himself suffered on account of sins, once for all, the righteous one on behalf of the unrighteous.
  — Olivia Muenter, Woman's Day, 8 Feb. 2023
• The only righteous path, these same men tell them once the truth is out, is to forgive, or risk eternal exile from the kingdom of heaven.
  — Darren Franich, Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 23 Dec. 2022
• Two of the lawmakers involved in the tape have refused to leave office in the face of righteous anger, creating a waiting game of sorts.
  — Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2022
• For all their righteous fearlessness and kinetic daring, the Ford hero is, to quote a line from The Last Crusade, as human as the next man.
  — Vulture, 10 July 2023
• The taunt was at once socially contagious, righteous, and fun.
  — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 19 June 2023
• In all the book’s sections, the righteous anger of a climate watcher is blended with the beautiful prose this author has been writing for 40 years.
  — Steve Donoghue, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Oct. 2022
• We were sold dreams of upcoming fairness, but what is righteous is clearly weighty.
  — Brooklyn White, Essence, 25 May 2022
• All have sinned and fall short of God’s glory, but all are treated as righteous freely by his grace because of a ransom that was paid by Christ Jesus.
  — Ysolt Usigan, Woman's Day, 25 Jan. 2023
• Still, throughout the years, screenwriters have dropped a few hints as to how Ethan Hunt became so deadly and morally righteous.
  — Time, 12 July 2023
• Although it’s been a minute since the group released a new album, that doesn’t mean their brand of righteous, instrument-forward hip-hop has lost its groove.
  — Britt Julious, Chicago Tribune, 5 Jan. 2023
• Support for the Whites was hard to portray as a righteous cause because of the Whites’ involvement in horrific Jewish pogroms.
  — Anna Reid, Foreign Affairs, 20 Feb. 2024
• In other words, saying that whoever has the righteous, just cause has a 3-to-1 advantage over the other side.
  — Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 30 June 2023
• Cameron’s got plenty of ambivalence, anxiety, grief, and rage to work from, but those things haven’t turned her narrow and righteous.
  — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 25 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 3 May 2024