Rectitude
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Mr. Pickwick, in his turn, conscious of his own innocence and
rectitude
, and irritated by having unfortunately involved the middle-aged lady in such an unpleasant affair, was not so quietly disposed as was his wont.
More example sentences with word rectitude
But in America's early days, we lived in what historians call a culture of character, where we still, at that point, valued people for their inner selves and their moral
rectitude.
The troubled man reclaims himself with his own tangled impression of
rectitude.
The younger of the brothers, Will (Andrew Stevens, who also produces here as well as contributing heavily to the screenplay), a rather artless character, does in fact espy Nikki in flagrante delicto, but this apparently fortuitous event for Brian is nullified because Will has succumbed to the physical charms of the wayward wife and has decided to withhold the evidential tape from the musician and his attorney, played by able supporting player Paul Carr, causing a viewer to recognize that the lovestruck security guard can not be considered as an example of
rectitude.
For southern Europe as a whole, the single currency has proved to be a golden cage, forcing greater fiscal and monetary
rectitude
but removing the exchange rate as a critical cushion against unexpected shocks.
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