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
“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
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
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
