righteousness

Example Sentences

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Among them, as with the Jews, generosity was not charity but, if I may, righteousness.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 21, 2025

The service heard how she had lived with beauty, goodness and righteousness.

From BBC • Dec. 17, 2025

Instead, he seems as if he’s trying to lacquer on a veneer of righteousness to some very nasty business.

From Slate • Nov. 20, 2025

Despite what his parents wanted for him, Superman chose a path of righteousness, and it’s never too late to make that choice.

From Salon • Jul. 13, 2025

Rather than convincing me of the righteousness of this kind of believing, rather than making me certain of its correctness, it made me question, and doubt, all the more.

From "The Miseducation of Cameron Post" by emily m. danforth