Words similar to righteousness

Example sentences for: righteousness

How can you use “righteousness” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

But Blockbuster and other such outfits have, with the help of the MPAA, given themselves a veneer of righteousness while trafficking in the same kind of sleaze as every other entertainment conglomerate.
)--is terrifying not just because it's sadistic but also because its sadism is suffused with righteousness.
To oversee this mass conversion, Ashoka turned the Brahmanic concept of dharma (righteousness) into an instrument of public policy, enforced by the Officers of Righteousness he had appointed for this purpose.
And I suddenly thought, "Is this the man I want representing the righteousness of America in a land sacred to billions of Jews, Christians, and Moslems?"
At times, too, the (cool expertise vs. righteousness, wit vs. no sense of humor) become almost too vivid, as if she weren't a real-life polemicist so much as an intriguing fictional character.