rectitude

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Mr. Strong’s Oedipus is a commanding figure, exuding virility and seeming to tower over everyone around him, a pillar of rectitude and confidence.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 14, 2025

Los Angeles needed a man on a white horse, somebody to clean things up, or at least give the place a sheen of rectitude.

From Los Angeles Times • May 30, 2023

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

His Beethoven had heft and rectitude but it came across as ponderous and imposing, somehow above it all, rather like the hall itself.

From New York Times • Oct. 7, 2022

The plantings in the gardens still retained their linearity and rectitude of bloom; but a chicken-house was mere ash, and the windows of the mansion were broken.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson