correctitude
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of correctitude
Example Sentences
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Friends and colleagues describe him as modest yet tenacious, with an mix of shyness and ambition, inscrutability, correctitude and warmth.
From New York Times • Feb. 27, 2019
Seeking further confirmation of my correctitude, I popped into a black barbershop in a racially diverse neighborhood, the On Point Barber Salon in Fort Greene, Brooklyn.
From Slate • Mar. 2, 2015
The Hitchcock is a glass of gin, and a glass of gin has its merits, but being correctly called a martini is not among them—and a martini lacking in correctitude is missing a soul.
From Slate • Mar. 26, 2013
With categoric correctitude, Russia's Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotov called in the foreign press.
From Time Magazine Archive
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But priests and schoolmasters and bureaucrats get hold of life and try to make it all rules, all etiquette and regulation and correctitude....
From Mr. Britling Sees It Through by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
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