unrighteously
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
4
Syllables
12
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
In an unrighteous manner.
Example Sentences
- "Set a happy and an influential example to your fellow slaveholders, by a righteous treatment of those, whom you unrighteously hold in bondage."
- "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."
Etymology
From unrighteous + -ly.
Word Breakdown
- Root: *h₃reǵ-
- Suffix: unrighteous
Inflected Forms
more unrighteously (comparative)
most unrighteously (superlative)