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
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
Propelled from the depths of her ignorance, silly imagining and girlish rectitude, she had come to call a halt.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
Vocabulary lists containing rectitude
The Declaration of Independence
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To Kill a Mockingbird
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The Things They Carried
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