uprightness

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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

While teaching a class on documentary earlier in his career, Farhadi asked his students to record one of those news stories of casual uprightness so they could discuss them.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 14, 2022

But the person who spearheaded the overhaul — Bernard Pivot, a legendary figure in France’s world of books, known for his uprightness — retired as the Goncourt’s president in late 2019.

From New York Times • Sep. 29, 2021

In a long career in government and private industry, Mr. Ruckelshaus was widely promoted as “Mr. Clean” as much for his uprightness as for his role with the EPA.

From Washington Post • Nov. 27, 2019

And she herself was often repelled by the hard uprightness that lay just under his gentle voice and looks.

From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare