How to Use rectitude in a Sentence

rectitude

noun

• The president could serve out the rest of his term with the rectitude of a monk, and still be undone by his past sins.
  — Mckay Coppins, The Atlantic, 18 May 2017
• Los Angeles needed a man on a white horse, somebody to clean things up, or at least give the place a sheen of rectitude.
  — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 30 May 2023
• Other than that, Elizabeth has been the model of rectitude and thrift in the public eye for over 50 years now.
  — Will Frears, NYMag.com, 20 Mar. 2011
• In his statement about the search of Mar-a-Lago, Mr. Garland appeared the very image of rectitude.
  — WSJ, 17 Aug. 2022
• Part of it was the intelligence and rectitude of his playing style.
  — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 1 Aug. 2022
• The case against the kangaroo business brings with it a sense of rectitude that transcends borders.
  — New York Times, 22 May 2021
• All that black-and-white stiff-necked rectitude, the round face and level gaze, the high collar, the velvet and satin of a distant century, the hat—those hats!—flat, drab, lifeless.
  — Jeff MacGregor, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 June 2023
• The district attorney was the picture of a gray-haired eminence, a figure of rectitude in a circus of a city.
  — Andrew Kirtzman, Washington Post, 8 Dec. 2022
• But as piqued as tensions were, Cameron radiated confidence and a bedrock belief in the rectitude of the law.
  — Washington Post, 23 Sep. 2020
• Grisham is garrulous and funny when talking about himself, much more so than the tone of rectitude in some of his books might suggest.
  — Janet Maslin, New York Times, 31 May 2017
• At the same time, liberty must be accompanied by rectitude, at least to a degree.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 21 Dec. 2020
• The screening of who is entitled to burial does not include a background check on lifetime rectitude!
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Oct. 2020
• Americans have argued about the rectitude of the Vietnam War for nearly half a century.
  — USA TODAY, 11 Sep. 2017
• Like those of Jack Nicklaus and Nancy Lopez, both of whom have long been celebrated for their character and rectitude.
  — Eamon Lynch, Detroit Free Press, 10 Jan. 2021
• Hjorth seems to be suggesting that rectitude can be the enemy of justice, and that neutrality can be a form of self-dealing.
  — Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2019
• The inner conflict Serkis evoked as Gollum becomes grand yet wary rectitude with Caesar.
  — A.o. Scott & Wesley Morris, New York Times, 7 Dec. 2017
• Some were more serious than others, but each held on to their own notion of morality, honor, and rectitude.
  — Tom McTague, The Atlantic, 23 Jan. 2022
• The bitter irony of the current scandal that broke this past week is that the allegations of corruption target a high official of the UAW, a union long known for the rectitude of its leaders like Reuther.
  — John Gallagher, Detroit Free Press, 29 July 2017
• The trouble with her writing, and indeed with her whole political persona, is that she is obsessed with her own rectitude, and nobody else is.
  — Barton Swaim, WSJ, 15 Sep. 2017
• Behind one man, a celebrity, there is a cult of personality; behind the other, a bureaucrat, there is a cult of rectitude.
  — Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 18 May 2017
• But the path to a better future has been blocked by partisanship and misguided concepts of fiscal rectitude.
  — James Freeman, WSJ, 6 Aug. 2021
• There are no longer any unifying national figures whose probity and rectitude could be held up as symbols of hope and civic instruction.
  — Michael Auslin, National Review, 3 Aug. 2017
• His understanding of power is not derived from the populace, but rather from a divine source, a sense of historical rectitude, and a sense of justice.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 27 June 2023
• But repetition takes a toll, and Hunter's testimony would have amplified doubts about the Bidens' rectitude.
  — Tom Benning, Dallas News, 6 Feb. 2020
• Baker, a model of rectitude in contrast to Cohn’s recklessness, led the recount case in the 2000 election that elevated George W. Bush to the presidency.
  — Star Tribune, 6 Nov. 2020
• Republicans used Democrats’ moral rectitude as a ruse for accomplishing their longstanding goal of pushing the poor off of the government dole.
  — Bryce Covert, The New Republic, 20 Aug. 2021
• Lehrer’s professional rectitude and discipline (as well as his profound sense of patriotism) came from his hitch in the Marine Corps.
  — Paul Farhi, Washington Post, 23 Jan. 2020
• But the brazenness with which the Thomases have flouted the most reasonable expectations of judicial rectitude is without precedent.
  — Richard Galant, CNN, 27 Mar. 2022
• His own sense of rectitude, Flores said in 2019, shortly before his mother, Maria, died of breast cancer, had been instilled by her unwavering values.
  — New York Times, 4 Feb. 2022
• Such German efforts are turning a page for the country after years of balanced budgets, driven by an orthodoxy of fiscal rectitude.
  — Craig Stirling, Fortune, 6 June 2020

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