unrighteous

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: un=right=eous
• COUNT in NET: 9 in 9 verses (in OT : 1 in 1 verses) (in NT : 8 in 8 verses)

CIDE DICTIONARY

unrighteous, a. [OE. unrightwise, AS. unrihtwīs. See Un- not, and Righteous.].

•  Not righteous; evil; wicked; sinful; as, an unrighteous man.  [1913 Webster]
•  Contrary to law and equity; unjust; as, an unrighteous decree or sentence.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

unrighteous, adj. not righteous; unjust, wicked, dishonest.

Derivative

unrighteously adv. unrighteousness n.

Etymology

OE unrihtwis (as UN-(1), RIGHTEOUS)

THESAURUS

unrighteous

Adamic, aberrant, abnormal, abominable, atrocious, backsliding, carnal, criminal, delinquent, deviant, disgraceful, erring, evil, fallen, fleshly, frail, godless, hardly the thing, ignominious, illegal, impious, improper, impure, inappropriate, incorrect, indecorous, infamous, infirm, irreligious, lapsed, not done, not the thing, of easy virtue, off-base, off-color, out-of-line, peccable, postlapsarian, prodigal, recidivist, recidivistic, sacrilegious, scandalous, shameful, shameless, sinful, terrible, un-Christly, unangelic, unchaste, unchristian, unclean, undue, unequitable, unfair, unfit, unfitting, ungodly, ungood, unholy, unjust, unlawful, unsaintly, unseemly, unsuitable, unvirtuous, virtueless, wanton, wayward, weak, wicked, wrong, wrongful

ROGET THESAURUS

unrighteous

Vice

N vice, evil-doing, evil courses, wrongdoing, wickedness, viciousness, iniquity, peccability, demerit, sin, Adam, old Adam, offending Adam, immorality, impropriety, indecorum, scandal, laxity, looseness of morals, enphagy, dophagy, exophagy, want of principle, want of ballast, obliquity, backsliding, infamy, demoralization, pravity, depravity, pollution, hardness of heart, brutality, corruption, knavery, profligacy, flagrancy, atrocity, cannibalism, lesbianism, Sadism, infirmity, weakness, weakness of the flesh, frailty, imperfection, error, weak side, foible, failing, failure, crying sin, besetting sin, defect, deficiency, cloven foot, lowest dregs of vice, sink of iniquity, Alsatian den, gusto picaresco, fault, crime, criminality, sinner, brothel, gambling house, joint, opium den, shooting gallery, crack house, vicious, sinful, sinning, wicked, iniquitous, immoral, unrighteous, wrong, criminal, naughty, incorrect, unduteous, undutiful, unprincipled, lawless, disorderly, contra bonos mores, indecorous, unseemly, improper, dissolute, profligate, scampish, unworthy, worthless, desertless, disgraceful, recreant, reprehensible, blameworthy, uncommendable, discreditable, disreputable, Sadistic, base, sinister, scurvy, foul, gross, vile, black, grave, facinorous, felonious, nefarious, shameful, scandalous, infamous, villainous, of a deep dye, heinous, flagrant, flagitious, atrocious, incarnate, accursed, Mephistophelian, satanic, diabolic, hellish, infernal, stygian, fiendlike, hell-born, demoniacal, devilish, fiendish, miscreated, misbegotten, demoralized, corrupt, depraved, evil-minded, evil-disposed, ill-conditioned, malevolent, heartless, graceless, shameless, virtueless, abandoned, lost to virtue, unconscionable, sunk in iniquity, lost in iniquity, steeped in iniquity, incorrigible, irreclaimable, obdurate, reprobate, past praying for, culpable, reprehensible, unjustifiable, indefensible, inexcusable, inexpiable, unpardonable, irremissible, weak, frail, lax, infirm, imperfect, indiscrete, demoralizing, degrading, wrong, sinfully, without excuse, Int, O tempora!, O mores!, alitur vitium vivitque tegendo, genus est mortis male vivere, mala mens malus animus, nemo repente fuit turpissimus, the trail of the serpent is over them all, to sanction vice and hunt decorum down.