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How to use rectitude in a sentence

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Is there another group that seeks the path of rectitude and moderation with the same fervor?
Never sanctimonious or smug, his art seems founded on a sense of rectitude.
However they range from the model of rectitude to the reprobate, from the intellectual to the ignorant, we vary more.
He now seems more than ever convinced of his own rectitude, more certain that his words and actions are necessarily benevolent.
It evinces an overdiminished but nevertheless inexpugnable desire for moral as well as ethical rectitude.
It is therefore about American self-respect, rightness, and a sense of moral rectitude.
The Fed Chairman, of course, turned his fiscal rectitude on a dime as soon as the Republicans regained control of the Treasury.
He is a model of moral rectitude, unabashed pragmatism, voluminous machismo and carnal fortification.
In recent years, Japan, once a model of fiscal rectitude, spent wildly on public works projects in an effort to stimulate the economy.
Accordingly some aspects of domestic rectitude predated the cult of domesticity.
They will, however, be loath to permit deviant minorities to wander from widely acknowledged paths of rectitude.
The emphasis here is on exemplary, individual acts of moral protest, not on ideological rectitude.
Old friends celebrated our defeat and the return to normalcy with a nauseating moral rectitude.
We know that he has the moral rectitude to stand up to the vilest attacks and pressure.
Much of his new decalogue could be charitably interpreted as playful recycling of mildly un-PC rectitude.
One excellent way to forget it is to focus with righteous rectitude on the evils of others while focusing on the nobility of oneself.
Though museums that have acquired Nok material recently might not have done anything technically illegal, their moral rectitude remains open to question.
It is defined as the intellectual virtue which rightly directs particular human acts, through rectitude of the appetite, toward a good end.
Yet suspicion of other people's culinary rectitude, along with the practicality of an earth sign, helps make well-adjusted Virgoans splendid cooks.
The dispensers of fiscal rectitude are finally getting a taste of their own medicine.
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Examples from Classical Literature
But some little deviation from the precise line of rectitude, might have been winked at in so tortuous and stigmatic a frame.
Was it not tampering with rectitude to have overcome them by a too persuasive rhetoric?
But honor and rectitude, clear-sightedness and trustfulness in life were fast returning.
The misanthropist Alceste is nobly fanatical on behalf of sincerity and rectitude.
Doubtless he spoke like this in order that his rectitude might not be called in question.
We cannot help remarking the danger of the least deviation from the path of rectitude.
But still he remained incomprehensible in his simplicity, fearlessness, and rectitude.
Her eloquence was never tired of expatiating on his purity and rectitude.
But rectitude scatters favors on every side without knowing it, and receives with wonder the thanks of all people.
Our legislators have not yet learned the comparative value of free trade and of freed, of union, and of rectitude, to a nation.
Has it been found that bodies of men act with more rectitude or greater disinterestedness than individuals?
Through them all she was sustained by the consciousness of her rectitude.
Who, hearing the foregoing discourse of Don Quixote, would not have set him down for a person of great good sense and greater rectitude of purpose?
What he had been saying, in effect, was that everyone was dishonest while he was the pillar of moral rectitude and incorruptibility, on a one-man campaign to clean up society.
This supposition of universal venalty in human nature is little less an error in political reasoning, than the supposition of universal rectitude.
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