The Collaborative International Dictionary
Unrighteous \Un*right"eous\, a. [OE. unrightwise, AS. unrihtw[=i]s. See Un- not, and Righteous.]
Not righteous; evil; wicked; sinful; as, an unrighteous man.
Contrary to law and equity; unjust; as, an unrighteous decree or sentence. [1913 Webster] -- Un*right"eous*ly, adv. -- Un*right"eous*ness, n.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
a. Not righteous
WordNet
adj. not righteous; "an unrighteous man"; "an unrighteous law" [ant: righteous]
Usage examples of "unrighteous".
Deford was saying, and, as Miss Lizzie Bettie came nearer, jumped as if caught in an unrighteous act.
It was said that in the old days the chaplains denied that heat could come from any source except the sun, holding the stars to be cool because the spirits of the righteous dead departed thither after separating from the unrighteous in the moonwhose phases showed the division taking placeand that it had been the start of their decline when brave divers wearing capsutes under their mantles for a store of air reported that the sea-bed was warmer than the surface at this spot .
And from your habit of promoting your old prison mates, and of arrogating unrighteous authority to yourself!
If he thought of it at all, he considered himself a fulfiller of God's judgment, a vessel of wrath to be emptied upon the souls of the unrighteous.
Whereupon Stubb quickly pulled to the floating body, and hailing the Pequod to give notice of his intentions, at once proceeded to reap the fruit of his unrighteous cunning.
Anyone above or below the prescribed ages who takes part in the public hymeneals shall be said to have done an unholy and unrighteous thing.