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 second cost of diversity derives from how employees of color perceive the rightness of their employer’s actions, otherwise known as legitimacy.

From Salon • Apr. 1, 2025

For its farewell, Olafsson played it more fluidly, but also with more confidence in the rightness of its hermitage.

From New York Times • Feb. 8, 2024

There were three signals she must feel: the fitness of her body, the rightness of the environment, and the chill of the atmosphere.

From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George