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Along with' Harry Hopkins he damned Tommy Corcoran, Congressman Maury Maverick of Texas, Homer Martin of the C.I.O. and Communist Earl Browder as other non-lowans who had unrighteously butted in by endorsing Mr. Wearin.

From Time Magazine Archive

Alas, how could the wretched and mean Vrikodara unrighteously strike thee down, thee that wert conversant with every rule of righteousness!

From The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 by Ganguli, Kisari Mohan

The woman unrighteously married and the man unmarried—or the reverse—will come together.

From The Cassowary What Chanced in the Cleft Mountains by Waterloo, Stanley

At that time R.F. admitted that he and his predecessors had held the area near the castle unrighteously.

From Villainage in England Essays in English Mediaeval History by Vinogradoff, Paul

Moreover, they were ever more wishful to dazzle and overawe the Venetian Ambassador, Ballerino, who was still kept by them, unrighteously, a prisoner in the said town.

From A Book of Quaker Saints by Hodgkin, L. V. (Lucy Violet)