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  • adjective Not righted.

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un- +‎ righted

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Examples

  • In other words, its better to maintain the status quo ante of there being an unrighted wrong than to create an additional injustice.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Read the Bill — A Response to Orin: 2009

  • I almost stopped reading the article. well it's a nice phone and there some prob. when u download some unrighted sofware in the phone so it's better to download apple software to in it.

    Journerdism | Will Sullivan's Stompin' ground for journalists and nerds. 2009

  • They know when we are wrong and nothing so hinders a testimony as to allow a wrong to go unrighted.

    The Personal Touch J. Wilbur Chapman

  • He is a coward who lets a baby die or a woman sink to shame or a fellow-man be humbled, alone and unassisted and unrighted.

    The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel John Maurice Miller

  • In the middle of the street he halted, faced front, and saluted the building with all the solemnity of a grenadier on parade, then went slowly back to his attic and to his unrighted grievance.

    XII. The Passing of Cat Alley 1902

  • Seeing, it is impossible that the monstrous wrong should go unrighted and government of the people endure, as endure it will, I know.

    I try to go to the War for the Third and Last Time 1901

  • Seeing, it is impossible that the monstrous wrong should go unrighted and government of the people endure, as endure it will, I know.

    The Making of an American Riis, Jacob A 1901

  • I would see the dead bodies of men whom I knew, men like myself, rattled out of the gate to the dumping ground and dropped there and forgotten -- men with wives and children still living or dead in poverty and shame, their pleas unheard and their wrongs unrighted.

    The Subterranean Brotherhood Julian Hawthorne 1890

  • Seeing, it is impossible that the monstrous wrong should go unrighted and government of the people endure, as endure it will, I know.

    The Making of an American 1881

  • What unrighted wrong drove him, in remorse, to his lonely grave!

    The Midnight Passenger : a novel Richard Savage 1874

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