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unrighteously

unrighteously adverb: in an unrighteous manner.

Adverb

unrighteously (comparative more unrighteously, superlative most unrighteously)

  1. In an unrighteous manner.
    • Set a happy and an influential example to your fellow slaveholders, by a righteous treatment of those, whom you unrighteously hold in bondage.1836, American Anti-Slavery Society, The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus
    • On the other hand, there are persons who have continually disapproved of the principle of compensation for a wrong given up, or the loss of an advantage unrighteously purchased.1900, Josephine Elizabeth Butler, Native Races and the War

Forms of unrighteously

comparativemore unrighteously
superlativemost unrighteously

Origin of unrighteously

From unrighteous + -ly.

Questions about unrighteously

What does unrighteously mean?
Unrighteously means in an unrighteous manner.
What part of speech is unrighteously?
Unrighteously is an adverb.

Words near unrighteously in the dictionary

  1. unrigging
  2. unright
  3. unrightable
  4. unrighted
  5. unrighteous
  6. unrighteously
  7. unrighteousness
  8. unrightful
  9. unrightfully
  10. unrightfulness
  11. unrighting

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