moral rectitude
Example Sentences
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Victory Day, Russia’s most important secular holiday, lauds two tenets that are central to the country’s identity: military might and moral rectitude.
From Seattle Times • May 7, 2023
Tutu, a Nobel Peace prize winner widely revered across racial and cultural divides in South Africa for his moral rectitude and principled fight against white-minority rule, died on Sunday aged 90.
From Reuters • Dec. 30, 2021
The sidewalk dollar you leave behind, out of moral rectitude, for its original owner to claim likely will find the pocket of the next pedestrian in line.
From Washington Post • Oct. 29, 2021
And so to the degree that Edward is an … Edwardian … I like him for being extremely, like, well-read and intelligent and piano-playing and concerned about moral rectitude and such.
From Slate • Aug. 7, 2020
Tartaglia stammers, and preserves something of the knave in his composition, burnished with Neapolitan abandonment to appetite and brazen disregard for moral rectitude.
From The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First by Gozzi, Carlo
