correctitude

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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

Peace will not be preserved by pious sentiments expressed in terms of platitudes or by official grimaces and diplomatic correctitude.

From Time Magazine Archive

But it is doubtful whether any strategic correctitude could have saved the Russian armies from the effects of German superior armaments.

From A Short History of the Great War by Pollard, A. F. (Albert Frederick)