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
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
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
But when detraction is printed in the morning paper you can't overlook it without incurring the suspicion of being illiterate and virtueless.
From The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck A Comedy of Limitations by James Branch Cabell
During this catalog of my virtueless existence, he gandy-walked me to the door and opened it.
From Highways in Hiding by George Oliver Smith
