moral rectitude
Example Sentences
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Shah noted "if he has an ounce of moral rectitude he should return the money".
From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026
It was superb theatre, with the added benefit of moral rectitude.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 24, 2023
Tutu, a Nobel Peace prize winner widely revered across racial and cultural divides in South Africa for his moral rectitude and principled fight against white-minority rule, died on Sunday aged 90.
From Reuters ● Dec. 30, 2021
And so to the degree that Edward is an … Edwardian … I like him for being extremely, like, well-read and intelligent and piano-playing and concerned about moral rectitude and such.
From Slate ● Aug. 7, 2020
Besides, even granting that her sense of moral rectitude were sufficiently flexible to allow of such a lapse on her part, he failed to see what motive she could have had.
From A Woman's Burden by Fergus Hume
