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upright person

noun as in straight arrow

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You did not apologize, offer to pay for damage, leave your name with us or anything a morally upright person would do in the same situation.

“I have never felt hopeless. The changes in official education guidelines cannot affect the relationships between students and teachers. As a teacher, there is still space for me to exert influence on my students through how I conduct myself as an upright person, and whether my teachings can touch their hearts. These still have a much greater impact than the guidelines,” he said.

Since being pushed out of his role, Kelly has been giving self-pitying interviews trying to blame anyone but himself for the horrors that happened on his watch, which only drives home how ridiculous it was to assume that Kelly was a responsible, upright person simply because he has gray hair and had a military career.

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Posters line the barbed-wire perimeter, bearing messages such as “Learn to be grateful, learn to be an upright person” and “No need to pay tuition, find a job easily.”

Posters line the barbed-wire perimeter, bearing messages such as “Learn to be grateful, learn to be an upright person” and “No need to pay tuition, find a job easily.”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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