uprightness
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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
While teaching a class on documentary earlier in his career, Farhadi asked his students to record one of those news stories of casual uprightness so they could discuss them.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 14, 2022
In a long career in government and private industry, Mr. Ruckelshaus was widely promoted as “Mr. Clean” as much for his uprightness as for his role with the EPA.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 27, 2019
Not sure if you caught that — a character only announces something about Gotham City’s decay or Gordon’s uprightness every five minutes or so.
From New York Times ● Oct. 6, 2014
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
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