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Unrighteous vs Unrighteously - What's the difference?

unrighteous | unrighteously |

As an adjective unrighteous

is not righteous.

As an adverb unrighteously is

in an unrighteous manner.

unrighteous

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Not righteous

    • unrighteously

    English

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • In an unrighteous manner.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1836, author=American Anti-Slavery Society, title=The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Set a happy and an influential example to your fellow slaveholders, by a righteous treatment of those, whom you unrighteously hold in bondage. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1900, author=Josephine Elizabeth Butler, title=Native Races and the War, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=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. }}