virtuously

Example Sentences

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"Theological doctrines encouraged aid for the shame-faced poor, who threatened the moral order by showing that you could live virtuously and prosperously but still fall victim to twists of fortune," said Robb.

From Science Daily • Dec. 1, 2023

I was done for, gorging on the gratis gum as if I were Melissa McCarthy parodying Sean Spicer, virtuously recycling the plastic empties.

From New York Times • Jan. 20, 2020

For those who slept in history class, Stoicism is an approximately 2,300-year-old Greco-Roman philosophy that stresses living virtuously, accepting bad things will happen and constantly meditating on death.

From Washington Post • Jan. 2, 2020

They worked hard and virtuously, their labor coated over with gauzy populism, their inner selves invested with a capitalist spirituality.

From Slate • Mar. 5, 2018

“I’m not supposed to say,” said Eric virtuously.

From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman