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virtuous
[ vur-choo-uhs ]
adjective
- conforming to moral and ethical principles; morally excellent; upright:
Lead a virtuous life.
a virtuous young person.
virtuous
/ ˈvɜːtʃʊəs /
adjective
- characterized by or possessing virtue or moral excellence; righteous; upright
- (of women) chaste or virginal
Derived Forms
- ˈvirtuousness, noun
- ˈvirtuously, adverb
Other Words From
- virtu·ous·ly adverb
- virtu·ous·ness noun
- non·virtu·ous adjective
- non·virtu·ous·ly adverb
- non·virtu·ous·ness noun
- quasi-virtu·ous adjective
- quasi-virtu·ous·ly adverb
- un·virtu·ous adjective
- un·virtu·ous·ly adverb
- un·virtu·ous·ness noun
Word History and Origins
Example Sentences
In other words, the free speech exhibited by the folks at Charlie Hebdo was not virtuous—until there was a body count.
A May 2014 Slate article by Sam Kean details the tragic changes he suffered “from a virtuous foreman to a sociopathic drifter.”
Some look at the Aspen museum and wonder whether Ban will be able to continue creating his humanitarian “virtuous” architecture.
At times it can seem too proud of its virtuous noncommerciality; its slowness can seem shallow, its artiness willful.
Guy-guitar-genius music isn't inherently evil; mass-produced pop isn't inherently virtuous.
She was also supposed to be the original or model of “the Virtuous Woman” therein portrayed!
The virtuous statesman advanced to meet him, while his countenance proclaimed that he knew all, and sympathized with its victim.
Both of these readings appeal to the Solomonic portrait of the virtuous woman, in Proverbs xxxi.
A stone mason was employed to engrave the following epitaph on a tradesman's wife: "A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband."
For twenty years you hold an innocent and virtuous woman under an infamous suspicion.
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