rectitude

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Mr. Strong’s Oedipus is a commanding figure, exuding virility and seeming to tower over everyone around him, a pillar of rectitude and confidence.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 14, 2025

It was superb theatre, with the added benefit of moral rectitude.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 24, 2023

But Judge Thapar says he has no doubts whatsoever about the rectitude of those on the court, nearly all of whom he knows personally.

From New York Times • Jul. 6, 2023

Los Angeles needed a man on a white horse, somebody to clean things up, or at least give the place a sheen of rectitude.

From Los Angeles Times • May 30, 2023

“The deviation from that line of politics on which we had been united has not made me less sensible of the rectitude of his heart: and I wished him to know this.”

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis