uprightness

Example Sentences

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At bottom, Carter was a fundamentally good and caring man, who lived his Christian faith and whose uprightness and personal probity offer a model for those who’ve followed him into the Oval Office.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 29, 2024

National progress is the sum of individual industry, energy, and uprightness, as national decay is of individual idleness, selfishness, and vice.

From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022

“Integrity” means the quality of being honest and having strong moral principles; moral uprightness.

From Washington Post • Jul. 19, 2017

It said Justice Gorsuch possessed “wisdom, uprightness and learning.”

From New York Times • Jun. 15, 2017

He had once told his children: “What I want most of all is that you live in uprightness and freedom of spirit, no matter how difficult that may be.”

From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti