rectitude

How To Use rectitude In A Sentence

• Is there another group that seeks the path of rectitude and moderation with the same fervor?
• That doesn't sound at all like a person convinced of his own rectitude.
• He is a model of moral rectitude, unabashed pragmatism, voluminous machismo and carnal fortification.
• It also gives a glow of correctitude. Times, Sunday Times
• A judge shall behave with dignity, correctitude and sensitiveness towards the public interest, in his social life.
• They decided last year that he was an un-electable oddball and national embarrassment - struggling to exude the requisite correctitude to be considered aldermanic, much less prime ministerial.
• I dare say you're in good company - good to a fault if correctitude engenders a kind of exclusivity.
• It evinces an overdiminished but nevertheless inexpugnable desire for moral as well as ethical rectitude.
• Yet Smith also saw that the roots of ‘this frugality’ ran much deeper than Calvinist cant or even moral rectitude.
• From being merely awkward, he at last became uncouth; but from the natural goodness of his heart, the nearest to him soon lost sight of his ungentleness from the rectitude of his intentions, and, to parody the poet, saw his deportment in his feelings. Memoirs of the Courts of Louis XV and XVI. Being secret memoirs of Madame Du Hausset, lady's maid to Madame de Pompadour, and of the Princess Lamballe — Volume 7