correctitude

Example Sentences

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Friends and colleagues describe him as modest yet tenacious, with an mix of shyness and ambition, inscrutability, correctitude and warmth.

From New York Times • Feb. 27, 2019

Seeking further confirmation of my correctitude, I popped into a black barbershop in a racially diverse neighborhood, the On Point Barber Salon in Fort Greene, Brooklyn.

From Slate • Mar. 2, 2015

The Hitchcock is a glass of gin, and a glass of gin has its merits, but being correctly called a martini is not among them—and a martini lacking in correctitude is missing a soul.

From Slate • Mar. 26, 2013

Even though freedom, tolerance and other qualities might be termed democracy's adjusted faults, these are by far to be preferred to the rigid correctitude of totalitarianism.

From Time Magazine Archive

I suppose that M. Bazin, Academician and apostle of literary correctitude, is just the type of official mediocrity that the Alliance Française was fated to invite to London as representative of French letters.

From Books and Persons Being Comments on a Past Epoch 1908-1911 by Bennett, Arnold