rectitude

In a photo from 1918, the family looks the picture of American rectitude.

Americans also made clear that they do not expect any President to be a model of rectitude.

What's needed is not just individual rectitude but also civic action.

"I know my life has hardly been a model of rectitude."

You are a man of great natural honesty and rectitude.

How much rectitude was one to expect now that Congress has again cut aid?

But I'm hardly about to hold them up as models of rectitude, either.

Rather daunting rectitude in one so relatively young, I thought.

There was little sign of the aggressive rectitude we have come to expect.

The climate is now marked by greater personal and public rectitude.

But such rectitude could only come when the inner disposition was right.

We all know that Mattie is a model of rectitude.

And why did all the revs seem so certain about the rectitude of their ways?

Your unrequited rectitude is the only hold they have upon you.

Focus groups want him to morph himself into Clinton with rectitude.

He did so not simply through personal rectitude, still less by pursuing a correct political "line."

In her experience, no one had ever matched their fierce rectitude.

An extreme rectitude of mind, rather than any gift, gave her weight in the family.

It is time for the Swiss to live up to their image of clean rectitude.

Students were selected for political rectitude rather than academic talent.

Such rectitude, however, was very much the exception rather than the rule among the great powers.

She can seek to defend her political rectitude by lying.

It is not that Russia's business community has suddenly been swept by a new sense of rectitude.

Such traits do suggest a kind of personal discipline - even rectitude.

She'd seen her father, a man of somber rectitude if ever there was one, lie the same way.