rightness
Example Sentences
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“He grew more confident with each pass on his drawing, and realized ... that much of the rightness of the drawing, of any drawing, came through time and diligence and discernment.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 2026
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
They knew that the public at home had doubts about the rightness of the war, and he wanted to reassure them and tell them why they were there.
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
