Meaning & use
unrighteousness
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The quality or state of being morally wrong or wicked.
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The sermon condemned the unrighteousness of greed and dishonesty.
He spent years atoning for what he saw as his own unrighteousness.
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Used chiefly in religious and biblical texts as the direct opposite of righteousness.
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