upstanding

Example Sentences

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Local leaders and families are ordered to identify those they recognise as upstanding citizens.

From Barron's • Jan. 23, 2026

Jim Palmer, an upstanding and righteous pitcher and broadcaster, may understand the hypocrisy of baseball’s new embrace of gambling, but it’s still a narrow issue for him.

From Salon • Jun. 13, 2025

A top-notch campus alone does not produce academic achievement — and, conversely, a brilliant teacher and an assiduous student in a one-room schoolhouse can make for an upstanding education.

From Los Angeles Times • May 23, 2025

Many commentators seemed to believe the actor had tarnished an otherwise upstanding and squeaky clean image, with some expressing disappointment that the former United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees ambassador “can’t accept his own child”.

From BBC • Nov. 27, 2024

As for Richard, he was a fine, upstanding person, as Mama and Cook were always saying.

From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland