correctitude

Example Sentences

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Friends and colleagues describe him as modest yet tenacious, with an mix of shyness and ambition, inscrutability, correctitude and warmth.

From New York Times • Feb. 27, 2019

Seeking further confirmation of my correctitude, I popped into a black barbershop in a racially diverse neighborhood, the On Point Barber Salon in Fort Greene, Brooklyn.

From Slate • Mar. 2, 2015

The Hitchcock is a glass of gin, and a glass of gin has its merits, but being correctly called a martini is not among them—and a martini lacking in correctitude is missing a soul.

From Slate • Mar. 26, 2013

With categoric correctitude, Russia's Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotov called in the foreign press.

From Time Magazine Archive

I had seen, for the first time in my life, a churchwarden in Somerset, a local cheesemonger of appalling correctitude.

From The Belovéd Vagabond by Locke, William John