Example sentences for: rectitude

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

  • 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."

  • 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."

  • 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.

  • As long as Congress is unwilling to offset revenue losses with real spending cuts (not the vague promises of future rectitude that have been the mainstay of every "historic balanced budget" package since 1981), a cut in taxes means a bigger federal budget deficit.

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


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