Meanings
comparative more unrighteously · superlative most unrighteously
- 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, Omnibus1 more example
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
Synonyms & antonyms
adverbin an unrighteous manner
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
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