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US
/ˈəpˌstændɪŋ/
]
[ UK /ʌpstˈændɪŋ/ ]
[ UK /ʌpstˈændɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
meriting respect or esteem
an upstanding member of the community
How To Use upstanding In A Sentence
- But I think it came at a moment when Americans were particularly hungry for someone they could perceive as honest, upstanding, and a hero.
- The cop is left languishing in prison while the crook makes the most of his new life as an upstanding family man. The Sun
- The upper wall 56 of the bin 54 for the unweighed feed f includes a flange 62 receiving the lower end of an upstanding conveyor generally designated 64.
- Like some kind of hard-faced but upstanding sheriff in one of those wild west books Wesley took such delight in reading. BEHINDLINGS
- Reefer Madness" tells the story of Jimmy Harper, an upstanding youth who becomes a whacked-out pot fiend after one 'toke' of the evil reefer. BroadwayWorld.com Featured Content
- Or Her Majesty, Mrs. Brown probably too art-housey for this list, which is a fine, upstanding film, as long as you ignore everything in it that pretends to be a historical fact. Film
- You are upstanding members of the community who feel passionately about something.
- People - apparently respectable, upstanding people - actually justifying these unspeakable crimes.
- An upstanding member of the community who has been deeply involved in prison matters for many years called me in distress just a month or so ago.
- Several miles further on a solitary upstanding column of rock represented an opossum man who rested here, looked about the country, and left spirit children behind him; a low range of remarkably white quartzite hills indicated a large number of white ant eggs thrown here in the _wingara_ [146] by the Munga-munga women as they passed across the country. The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia