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adj
Free from sin or guilt.
The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bolde as a lyon.
Moral and virtuous, perhaps to the point of sanctimony.
Human beings should take a righteous path, and so should art. We should promote kindness and beauty through art.
Justified morally.
righteous indignation
Awesome; great.
The sportos, the motorheads, geeks, sluts, bloods, wastoids, dweebies, dickheads - they all adore him. They think he's a righteous dude.
He sold me a bulging paper sack full of Cambodian Red for two dolla' MPC. A strange experience, copping from a kid, but it was righteous weed.
Major; large; significant.
He found Richard in one piece near a large circular container, thankfully, staring at a righteous mess of blood and gore.
verb
To make righteous; specifically, to justify religiously, to absolve from sin.
Thus for the purposes of being ‘righteoused’, the Law was irrelevant; yet Paul could not bear to see all the Law disappear.