virtuous
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The original features “an all-American archetype of a virtuous family pitted against a monster,” while Scorsese depicted a “broken and dysfunctional family and the monster is even more extreme, he’s like a swamp creature.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2026
This idea that well-compensated employees become avid consumers who, in a virtuous cycle, support profitable companies, guided U.S. industry for much of the 20th century.
From Barron's • May 20, 2026
Since we—the authors of this essay—are philosophers, maybe you’d expect us to say it’s important to do all these virtuous things for the right reasons.
From Slate • May 15, 2026
“It needs to be substantially reduced for Venezuela to engage on a virtuous circle.”
From The Wall Street Journal • May 13, 2026
"That's what I said! I said about our meetings and things and then you said shut up-" His voice lifted into the whine of virtuous recrimination.
From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding
Vocabulary lists containing virtuous
"The Odyssey" by Homer, Books 1–7
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