uprightness
- 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
“And with it, black hair in its natural state of sublime uprightness has returned as a symbol of political consciousness and visionary imagining.”
From Slate • Apr. 7, 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
He had once told his children: “What I want most of all is that you live in uprightness and freedom of spirit, no matter how difficult that may be.”
From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
