rectitude

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Oedipus’ rectitude and gleaming self-confidence were so palpable that as he grappled with the slow drip of dark revelations about his past—and present—his increasing disorientation and anguish were excruciating to watch.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 26, 2025

Franklin was less concerned with unfailing rectitude than Washington, yet he also lived by a code of public service and personal honor that made him one of the most celebrated men of his times.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 18, 2023

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

“Cairo Conspiracy” is a measured but unsparing portrait of corruption perpetrated by people who, across the board, are utterly confident of their own rectitude.

From New York Times • Jan. 26, 2023

“The deviation from that line of politics on which we had been united has not made me less sensible of the rectitude of his heart: and I wished him to know this.”

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis