unrighteously

English

Etymology

From 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^[1]:

     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^[2]:

     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.