Thesaurus / rightness
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I am beyond grateful that I have a small part to play in ensuring that Homer Plessy’s legacy will be entirely defined by the rightness of his cause and undefiled by an unjust criminal conviction.
LOUISIANA GOV. PARDONS HOMER PLESSY, 125 YEARS AFTER SCOTUS ‘SEPARATE BUT EQUAL’ RULINGOLIVIA B. WAXMANJANUARY 5, 2022TIMEI have access to a perspective that puts me in a position of authority and rightness.
POET TRACY K. SMITH ON FINDING JOY DURING AN UNBEARABLE YEARCADY LANGSEPTEMBER 28, 2021TIMEThere are profound differences in the psychology of the evangelical when it comes to being entitled to the rightness of belief.
COLD WAR KIDS’ NATHAN WILLETT: MY EVANGELICAL STRUGGLENATHAN WILLETTSEPTEMBER 22, 2021THE DAILY BEASTAnd so these features take on a kind of moral rightness before they are judged of as pleasing to the eye and as beautiful.
CHILDREN'S WAYSJAMES SULLYYou may have similar qualms over rent and the rightness and wrongness of it.
THE UNSOLVED RIDDLE OF SOCIAL JUSTICESTEPHEN LEACOCKAnd that again is because they are not clean enough themselves to value rightness above rubies!
THERE AND BACKGEORGE MACDONALDAnd, during the years of my preparation, there never came to me a doubt of the rightness of my decision.
MARY AND ISTEPHEN RETURN RIGGSAgain the assurance of perfect rightness came back in a mighty roar from the hills.
CORPORAL CAMERONRALPH CONNORThis rightness was just a vulgar “fluke”—there were lots of words really clever that were of no use at all.
THE REAL THING AND OTHER TALESHENRY JAMESIf there was one quality more than another which had distinguished it, it had been its simple sense of rightness.
THE DARK TOWERPHYLLIS BOTTOMEWORDS RELATED TO RIGHTNESS
- candor
- charitableness
- charity
- civility
- consideration
- courtesy
- decency
- decorum
- detachment
- disinterest
- disinterestedness
- dispassion
- dispassionateness
- due
- duty
- equitableness
- equity
- exactitude
- fair shake
- fair-mindedness
- give and take
- good faith
- goodness
- honesty
- honor
- humanity
- impartiality
- impartialness
- integrity
- justice
- legitimacy
- moderation
- nonpartisanship
- objectiveness
- objectivity
- open-mindedness
- propriety
- rationality
- reasonableness
- right
- righteousness
- rightfulness
- rightness
- seemliness
- square deal
- suitability
- tolerance
- truth
- uprightness
- veracity
- chastity
- conduct
- decency
- ethicality
- ethicalness
- gentleness
- godliness
- good habits
- goodness
- honor
- ideals
- incorruptibility
- incorruption
- integrity
- justice
- manners
- moral code
- morals
- mores
- philosophy
- principle
- principles
- probity
- purity
- rectitude
- righteousness
- rightness
- saintliness
- standards
- uprightness
- virtue
- worthiness
- candor
- charitableness
- charity
- civility
- consideration
- courtesy
- decency
- decorum
- detachment
- disinterest
- disinterestedness
- dispassion
- dispassionateness
- due
- duty
- equitableness
- equity
- exactitude
- fair shake
- fair-mindedness
- give and take
- good faith
- goodness
- honesty
- honor
- humanity
- impartiality
- impartialness
- integrity
- justice
- justness
- legitimacy
- moderation
- objectiveness
- objectivity
- open-mindedness
- propriety
- rationality
- reasonableness
- right
- righteousness
- rightfulness
- rightness
- seemliness
- square deal
- suitability
- tolerance
- truth
- uprightness
- veracity
- candor
- charitableness
- charity
- civility
- consideration
- courtesy
- decency
- decorum
- detachment
- disinterest
- disinterestedness
- dispassion
- dispassionateness
- due
- duty
- equitableness
- equity
- exactitude
- fair shake
- fair-mindedness
- give and take
- good faith
- goodness
- honesty
- honor
- humanity
- impartiality
- impartialness
- integrity
- justice
- justness
- legitimacy
- moderation
- nonpartisanship
- objectivity
- open-mindedness
- propriety
- rationality
- reasonableness
- right
- righteousness
- rightfulness
- rightness
- seemliness
- square deal
- suitability
- tolerance
- truth
- uprightness
- veracity
- accordance
- advisability
- agreeableness
- appositeness
- aptness
- becomingness
- compatibility
- concord
- congruity
- consonance
- convenience
- correctness
- correspondence
- decorum
- ethicality
- expedience
- fitness
- harmony
- justice
- legitimacy
- meetness
- morality
- order
- pleasantness
- properness
- recommendability
- rectitude
- respectability
- rightness
- seemliness
- suitability
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