rectitude

How To Use rectitude In A Sentence

• Yet suspicion of other people's culinary rectitude, along with the practicality of an earth sign, helps make well-adjusted Virgoans splendid cooks.
• One excellent way to forget it is to focus with righteous rectitude on the evils of others while focusing on the nobility of oneself.
• An intimidating squad of fearless men whose job it is to maintain the moral rectitude of the country by sniffing out depravity at source. THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS
• Thanks so much for the links to the WSJ story pumping up the speculatory frenzy over the conference call at the center of Blagopaylooza (my "Name the Scandal" entry, btw) and the Politico "story" about that upright paragon of moral rectitude David Vitter's plan to call Bill to testify at Hillary's confirmation hearing. Where Are You, Angry Left?
• In class they would study hard; in the dorms they would be models of rectitude and self-discipline.
• If moral rectitude and marital fidelity are requirements of those who play for England one can see a future when a schoolboy team will represent the country. Times, Sunday Times
• Then there was Marta from Spartanburg, who was fleeing the dead hand of middle-class rectitude.
• So here we/they are worshiping at - again in all inner rectitude - stones set down by one of their cruelest arch-nemeses for his own self-glorification and vanity and also as a sop (which many since have swallowed) to keep the people otherwise occupied, rather than in revolt. Robert Eisenman: The Greatest "Heritage Site" of All
• He that, with Archelaus, shall lay it down as a principle, that right and wrong, honest and dishonest, are defined only by laws, and not by nature, will have other measures of moral rectitude and pravity, than those who take it for granted that we are under obligations antecedent to all human constitutions. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
• He now seems more than ever convinced of his own rectitude, more certain that his words and actions are necessarily benevolent.