upright
adjective
erect or vertical, as in position or posture.
uprightness
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a word derived from
upright.
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
But the person who spearheaded the overhaul — Bernard Pivot, a legendary figure in France’s world of books, known for his uprightness — retired as the Goncourt’s president in late 2019.
From New York Times ● Sep. 29, 2021
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
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
