Unrighteously

adv

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Definitions

Adverb
  1. 1
    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."

Adverb
  1. 1
    in an unrighteous manner wordnet

Synonyms

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unrightfully

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"Set a happy and an influential example to your fellow slaveholders, by a righteous treatment of those, whom you unrighteously hold in bondage."

Etymology

From unrighteous + -ly.

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