Dictionary

righteously en · ADV

Etymology

From Middle English rightwisly, from Old English rihtwīslīce; equivalent to righteous + -ly.

Meanings

1. In a righteous manner.
   • Even if Trump isn’t righteously jousting with the judge and being persecuted by the Soros machine, he can tell his base that he is. Even better, he can talk a good game without doing things that might risk judicial sanctions. 2024 April 16, David A. Graham, “Trump’s Alternate-Reality Criminal Trial”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 17 Apr 2024:
   • One hoped, and the other despaired: they chose their own lots, and were righteously doomed to endure them. But you’ll not want to hear my 'moralising, Mr. Lockwood; you’ll judge, as well as I can, all these things: 1847 December, Ellis Bell [pseudonym; Emily Brontë], “chapter 17”, in Wuthering Heights: […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Thomas Cautley Newby, […], →OCLC:
   • We uttered our chagrin that the spokesmen for the American conscience—aye, for the "conscience of civilization"—had sanctioned the confessed immorality of the Shantung award to satisfy a secret covenant against which we righteously proclaimed, and we did all we can do to right the wrong. 1920 [1919 September 11], Frederick E. Schortemeier, “Safeguarding America”, in Rededicating America: Life and Recent Speeches of Warren G. Harding, Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC, →OL, page 79:

Forms

Relateds

rightly so · arightly · rightly · serve someone right · rightfully · self-righteously · damn right

Synonyms

righteously · virtuously · duteously · correctly · rightly · rightly · worthily · right-mindedly · becomingly · decorously · chastely · meritoriously · deservingly · dutifully · right-mindedly · nobly · morally · continently · morally · decently · modestly

Translations (2)

grc δικαιοσύνη (in a righteous manner) · got 𐌲𐌰𐍂𐌰𐌹𐌷𐍄𐌰𐌱𐌰 (in a righteous manner)