unrighteously

English

Etymology

unrighteous +‎ -ly

Adverb

unrighteously (comparative more unrighteously, superlative most unrighteously)

  1. In an unrighteous manner.
    • 1836, American Anti-Slavery Society, The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus‎:
      Set a happy and an influential example to your fellow slaveholders, by a righteous treatment of those, whom you unrighteously hold in bondage.
    • 1900, Josephine Elizabeth Butler, Native Races and the War‎:
      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.
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