moral rectitude
Example Sentences
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Victory Day, Russia’s most important secular holiday, lauds two tenets that are central to the country’s identity: military might and moral rectitude.
From Seattle Times • May 7, 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
He was the inventor of “Realpolitik”: a political philosophy that insisted on being completely pragmatic and realistic, rather than pursuing empty goals like “glory” or pulling punches in the name of moral rectitude.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2020
He gave this son a good education and planted deeply in his mind the principles of virtue and moral rectitude.
From Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution by Judson, L. Carroll
