unrighteousness

Example Sentences

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"In the end, unrighteousness and injustice are defeated and truth alone prevails," Kejriwal said.

From BBC • Feb. 27, 2026

When the last — Kalki, astride a white horse — comes, he will put to an end the present age of unrighteousness, adharma.

From New York Times • Feb. 16, 2023

All present were Protestants, protesting as they chose against whatever untruth or unrighteousness "is, and of a right ought to be, pro-tested."

From Time Magazine Archive

Not until 1535 did Miles Coverdale use a Middle English term for stolen objects to translate a passage in Ecclesiastes as "all brybes and unrighteousness."

From Time Magazine Archive

Crookednesses shall be straight, when the hearts of perverse men, which are agitated by the hooks of unrighteousness, are again made even by the ruling-rods of true righteousness.

From The Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church Containing the Sermones Catholici, or Homilies of ?lfric, in the Original Anglo-Saxon, with an English Version. Volume I. by Aelfric, Abbot of Eynsham