virtue
noun
moral excellence; goodness; righteousness.
virtueless
-
a word derived from
virtue.
Example Sentences
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O, too unkind unto so kind a wife, Too virtueless to one so virtuous, And too unchaste unto so chaste a matron.
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 9 by Various
That gentleman, drawing his right hand across his mouth, relieves it of the virtueless deposit, and supplies it with a fresh quid.
From Our World, Or, the Slaveholder's Daughter by F. Colburn (Francis Colburn) Adams
The architecture of Palladio is wholly virtueless and despicable.
From Modern Painters. Vol. III (of V) Containing Part IV. Of Many Things by John Ruskin
Their essential inexpressiveness makes almost virtueless the characteristics which Schoenberg has carried into them from out his fecund period.
From Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers by Paul Rosenfeld
There are certain of his songs, certain of his orchestral sketches, that would be virtueless enough were it not for the windy freshness that pervades them.
From Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers by Paul Rosenfeld
