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English
Etymology
From unrighteous + -ly.
Adverb
unrighteously (comparative more unrighteously, superlative most unrighteously)
- 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.