Example sentences for: rectitude

How can you use “rectitude” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Led by the likes of hymn-singing, tip-leaking truth-seeker Kenneth Starr and Second Amendment expert Charlton Heston, the country is in the midst of a renaissance of rectitude.

  • The Post asks whether Bradley's criticisms of Gore's policies belie Bradley's professed "rectitude," his "desire to be super-clean," and "his image as an above-the-fray politician."

  • In his three-piece suits and high, starched collars, Walsh looked like a 19 th century Presbyterian minister, radiating an unflinching, humorless rectitude.

  • This paradoxical persona serves him gorgeously in Rounders , a snappy and ingratiating gambling picture in which Damon plays a character who fleeces "suckers" in poker games yet has a fundamental rectitude.

  • The Post Express of Nigeria said in an editorial that it would like to "commend the American people for their watchful insistence on probity and moral rectitude for public office holders," but proposed caution in pursuing Clinton because "it will be foolhardy for America to cut its nose to spite its face."


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