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virtuously

adverb as in honorably

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adverb as in morally

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Example Sentences

The story behind low costsSolar became cheap due to forces called learning curves and virtuous cycles, the article describes.

You don’t have to be a paid-up Freudian to grasp that if you try to suppress the worst, in a vainglorious attempt to engineer newer, better, and more virtuous versions of ourselves, what you repress will come back around.

Beliefs get reinforced by political action, a virtuous cycle in which important demonstrations of democratic resilience boost faith in the system, in turn making citizens independently less likely to take actions that undermine it.

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My favorite of all Shakespearian characters, Cordelia is honest and virtuous to a fault.

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If these everyday experiences suddenly feel weirdly new, then the music is doing its simplest, most virtuous work.

In other words, white athletes virtuously worked their tails off whereas black athletes simply coasted because they can.

How shall we, how can we virtuously bring up our motherless little sister?

The Corporation would virtuously disown him and leave him to face a ten-year rap in Penal Colony.

She was virtuously knitting on a white rag, which was to receive a bright red border and was destined to dust Uncle Philip's desk.

She doesn't like me at all, though I've been virtuously nice to her.

Many daughters have done virtuously but I shall excel them all.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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