moral fiber
Example Sentences
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What trips up Rausch, though, is his moral fiber.
From Salon • Jan. 28, 2026
A U.S. military jury condemned his treatment as “a stain on the moral fiber of America.”
From New York Times • Aug. 9, 2022
Seven senior US officers serving on a military jury have rebuked the alleged CIA torture of a prisoner as "a stain on the moral fiber of America".
From BBC • Nov. 1, 2021
Her moral fiber simply won’t allow all this to go down.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 14, 2021
She still admired him, his moral fiber, his life of clean lines, but now it was admiration for a person separate from her, a person far away And her body had changed.
From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
