righteous

How To Use righteous In A Sentence

• While the Irish government generates a lot of noisy, self-righteous cant about the evils of cigarettes at home, it makes a pretty packet from ‘selling death’ abroad.
• Douglas, I will give my people and all the world proof that I am still God's righteous and avenging vice-gerent on earth, and that no consideration can restrain my wrath, no after-thought stay my arm, whenever it is ready to fall and smite the head of the guilty. Henry VIII and His Court
• People in the world of health and medicine sometimes become carried away by the obvious rightness or righteousness of their cause.
• The cause of God's people, and of that holy religion which they profess, is a righteous cause, otherwise the righteous God would not appear for it; yet it may for a time be run down, and seem as if it were lost. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
• Christ not only died for the sins of His sheep on the Cross but he established their righteousness through His perfect obedience to God's Law.
• When you laugh at politicians, all you do is channel righteous anger into passive hilarity. Times, Sunday Times
• One can further continue the associations with the contrasts of righteousness and wrongdoing, life and death and the like.
• However, we cannot continue to stoop to their level, because it removes our right to righteous indignation at their atrocities.
• It just feeds the religious right's feeling of righteous besiegement while gaining almost nothing in practical terms.
• We have to learn tolerance, to look at our behaviour and to stop being self-righteous.