adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
righteous anger often disapproving (= anger felt when you think something should not be allowed to happen )
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The speech was full of righteous anger against the West.
righteous indignation
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He stormed into her office, full of righteous indignation .
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
anger
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His anger at her rejection was the vicious, righteous anger of one who felt betrayed.
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Her righteous anger moved him, filled him with a weird sense of shame that jarred him.
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However, the milkman resolved not to let the fact that he had been back to sleep diminish his righteous anger .
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The great goddess Nemesis, which means righteous anger , undertook to bring this about.
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What most of us fear is the righteous anger of the under privileged.
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A look of despair, of righteous anger came over his face.
indignation
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Suddenly it was not the sunlight that made Polly glow but righteous indignation .
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Desperately he tried to relight the fires of righteous indignation .
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The Comintern expressed righteous indignation at such an attack, although eighteen months later it tacitly accepted all these points.
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I loved the little note of righteous indignation .
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He asked with no malice, with no thoughts of righteous indignation and she sensed this and answered his questions.
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There was much stamping of ministerial feet, but, sadly, this show of righteous indignation led to very little action.
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Farmers, full of righteous indignation , were insulted that their professionalism should be questioned.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a righteous dude
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No matter how good and righteous you think your cause is, you cannot break the law.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Burgess' illegal use of alcohol ran afoul of the code, a point the righteous Karnaugh was quite eager to make.
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Desperately he tried to relight the fires of righteous indignation.
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His anger at her rejection was the vicious, righteous anger of one who felt betrayed.
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I have seen eating obsessions up close before, but never one with such a strong sense of righteous healthiness.
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The Comintern expressed righteous indignation at such an attack, although eighteen months later it tacitly accepted all these points.
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There was much stamping of ministerial feet, but, sadly, this show of righteous indignation led to very little action.
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Who among us is so righteous that a sane society would entrust her with the power to obliterate a city?