rightness

Example Sentences

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We tend to believe that legality establishes rightness, establishes legitimacy.

From Slate • Feb. 3, 2026

The simile is arresting: modern European proponents of welfare-state liberalism likened to a dying class of 19th-century hereditary nobles, confident in their rightness and desperate to rest.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 5, 2025

The sensation of taste and the pleasure food brings versus the maintaining of a sense of rightness in how we pursue these pleasures.

From Salon • Apr. 28, 2024

“The one way to preserve and defend a place’s rightness is to inhabit it, intimate, knowledgeable, and vigilant as can be.”

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 8, 2023

In my hand it’s warm, and a sense of rightness heats me from the inside out as I drape it over my head.

From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland