Synonyms of righteously

righteously

adverb

as in innocently

with purity of thought and deed

if you have acted righteously, you have nothing to fear

Synonyms & Similar Words

• innocently
• properly
• chastely
• purely
• morally
• virtuously
• modestly
• decently
• decorously
• primly
• prudishly
• priggishly

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• wickedly
• sinfully
• evilly
• immorally
• vulgarly
• obscenely
• indecently
• lewdly
• impurely
• lasciviously
• lustfully

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of righteously

Witnesses’ fumbling looks bad by comparison, and Ossoff sounds righteously angry without being rageful. — David A. Graham, The Atlantic, 24 July 2026

With raping, raving misogynists in the highest offices and loudest cultural bandwidths of the world, women of all classes have cause to be righteously filled with rage, betrayal, and disappointment. — Literary Hub, 16 June 2026

The darkly comic crime drama pits Frances McDormand's righteously furious mom against a police force that hasn't caught her daughter's killer. — Brian Truitt, USA Today, 4 Mar. 2026

But O’Hara is best known for her role as Kate McCallister in Home Alone, the distracted, frantic, righteously determined mom to Macaulay Culkin’s precocious 8-year-old Kevin. — Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 30 Jan. 2026

Polak is a symbol of virtue where conscience reigns over fear and intimidation to refute the hateful and divisive rhetoric of people like Charile Kirk who self-righteously relished in denigrating and dehumanizing others in a most un-Christian way. — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 14 Jan. 2026

This includes even the discourse of human rights that was righteously invoked against Communism and then against Muslim countries, enshrined by numerous American reports, and wielded to justify economic sanctions. — Victor J. Blue, Harpers Magazine, 23 Nov. 2025