Example Sentences

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At bottom, Carter was a fundamentally good and caring man, who lived his Christian faith and whose uprightness and personal probity offer a model for those who’ve followed him into the Oval Office.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 29, 2024

National progress is the sum of individual industry, energy, and uprightness, as national decay is of individual idleness, selfishness, and vice.

From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022

In a long career in government and private industry, Mr. Ruckelshaus was widely promoted as “Mr. Clean” as much for his uprightness as for his role with the EPA.

From Washington Post • Nov. 27, 2019

Not sure if you caught that — a character only announces something about Gotham City’s decay or Gordon’s uprightness every five minutes or so.

From New York Times • Oct. 6, 2014

And she herself was often repelled by the hard uprightness that lay just under his gentle voice and looks.

From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare