Unrightful

a. Now rare. [UN-¹ 7.] Unrighteous, unjust, wrong.

a. 1325.  Prose Psalter, c. 3. Y ne sett nouȝt to-fore myn eȝen þyng vnryȝtful.

1393.  Langl., P. Pl., C. XI. 215. A rybaud þei engendrede and a gome vnryghtful.

c. 1440.  Jacob’s Well, 285. An Heremyte ȝaf hym to ydell & vnryȝtefull thouȝtys,… for hym thouȝte þat god was vnryȝtfull.

1482.  Monk of Evesham (Arb.), 85. The onrightful scheding of mennys blode.

1545.  Bale, Myst. Iniq., 15. Pylate the vnryghtfull iudge.

a. 1586.  Sidney, Astr. & Stella, Sonn. V. x. A rightfull prince by unrightfull deeds a tyrant groweth.

1606.  G. W[oodcocke], Hist. Ivstine, XXII. 84. Obiecting into them sometime their vnrightfull entrapping of Hanno.

1664.  H. More, Myst. Iniq., iv. 11. Malicious or inconsiderate spirits, that … pass unrightfull censures upon what is at least allowable.

1880.  McCarthy, Own Times, IV. 336. The unrightful things that were sometimes done.