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
The German sense of correctitude was deeply shocked by this outbreak.
From The War in the Air by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
