uprightness
Example Sentences
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At bottom, Carter was a fundamentally good and caring man, who lived his Christian faith and whose uprightness and personal probity offer a model for those who’ve followed him into the Oval Office.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 29, 2024
National progress is the sum of individual industry, energy, and uprightness, as national decay is of individual idleness, selfishness, and vice.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022
It said Justice Jackson possessed “wisdom, uprightness and learning.”
From New York Times ● Sep. 30, 2022
“Integrity” means the quality of being honest and having strong moral principles; moral uprightness.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 19, 2017
And she herself was often repelled by the hard uprightness that lay just under his gentle voice and looks.
From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare
