rectitude

1 The only missing piece was the insight that, for all his rectitude, Chuck can lie when he is in a foul enough mood.

2 An ironclad patriarch of Puritan rectitude — his admirers likened him to Oliver Cromwell — Brown, when in his mid-30s, consecrated his life to destroying the institution of slavery.

3 That may sound funny, but in the past you almost needed a chisel to break through the double-face cashmere, not to mention the Balenciaga-like rectitude.

4 I’ll take that cacophony over the internal consistency of the Village — its oddly superior sense of rectitude, its sense that its middling architecture ought to put it at the top of the class — any day.

5 Disarming, amiable and sporting a thick white fringe of beard, Mr. Williams has none of Omar’s menace but projects his former character’s soulfulness and rectitude.

6 It followed with the certainty of Victorian rectitude that advanced societies had an obligation to assist the backward, to civilise the savage, a moral duty that played well into the needs of empire.

7 Mr. Davies, white-haired and pink-complexioned, dressed in that great signifier of British rectitude — a cardigan — was sitting in the lobby of the British Film Institute here, animated and gesticulating.

8 However, an air of moral rectitude still clung to him in a number of roles.

9 His prize was Captain America, a guy whose moral rectitude makes him the punch line of jokes that Johnny Storm would have made.

10 It is rectitude — truth in action, and shines through every word and deed.

这实际行动中的真理，在每一句话语、每一个行为中熠熠闪光。

11 “Common sense urges us to suppose that beneath the Victorians’ public postures of rectitude, formality and reserve, beneath the bustles and beards, lurked beings much like ourselves,” she writes.

12 Confucius taught that moral rectitude is far more important than eloquence.

孔夫子教导,品性端正远比雄辩的口才重要.

13 But, on the phone with Karl Rove, he is busy with rectitude—as bland as the Man.

14 They worry that he has strayed from the path of fiscal rectitude.

他们担心卢拉已经偏离了财政廉洁的轨道。

15 Its claims of public-spiritedness and moral rectitude obscured its essential nature as a terrorist organization seeking economic, social, and political power.

16 Eugenicists such as Galton had hoped to select complex phenotypes—intelligence, height, beauty, and moral rectitude—as a biological shortcut to enrich genes for intelligence, height, beauty, and morality.

17 Made in advance of Hollywood’s strict Production Code, the two movies share daring premises compromised by studio rectitude.

18 It WAS a rare victory for fiscal rectitude.

这是财政清廉的一个罕见的胜利。

19 Frum relishes going on the attack, and he castigates members of a Republican establishment who have lain any pretensions to moral rectitude on the altar of a tax cut.

20 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.

1 正大光明

play fair

2 操行端正

correctitude

3 直

right direct straight unbent square baculiform air-line fair ortho- orth-

4 诚实

righthearted clean-fingered square honest loyal straightforward upright sincere downright truthful guileless unfeigned dinkum veracious truehearted single-eyed trueheartedness truth faith integrity honesty veracity troth straightforwardness lunary clean hands open straight genuine sincerity probity be on the up and up straight as an arrow on the square simple single candid artless veridical incorrupt true-hearted exanimo fidelity fair dinkum clean uprightly openness uprightness on the up and up on the up kosher upstanding upfront fairly and squarely on the level fair and square good fine incorruptible candour

5 正确

giusto vindicable right perfect certain correct straight dead proper exact chill exquisite kosher veracious unmistaken well exactly truly properly nicely rightly aright justice rightness exactness exactitude trueness according to Cocker by the book like a book spot-on inerrable just sound true accurate valid precise faithful literal unerring machinelike ungarbled inerrably correctly accurately precisely justly validly validness inerrability precision correctness veracity nicety fineness preciseness to a tee to a tittle on the beam in perspective chapter and verse very good reasonable OK thorough neat mathematical categorical directly cleanly truth accuracy verity be in the right dinkum fit ortho- according to Hoyle in the right have a point kee-rect sure error refined scrupulous clean-cut soundly validity correctitude

6 清廉

incorruptible incorrupt cleanhanded incorruptibly incorruptness purity

7 纯正

simon-pure true pure honest chaste racy idiomatic echt incorrupt purity purify

8 正义

just right righteous justice

9 正直

unwily just good right sound white true straight square honest straightforward upright righteous honorable truthful rightful conscientious scrupulous upstanding guileless right-thinking well-conditioned right-minded undesigning straight-ahead conscionable purehearted soothfast honestly squarely truth integrity honesty perpendicular chastity veracity rightness probity straight as a die up and up wear a hat right-hearted righthearted white-handed loyal rightly righteously uprightly trueheartedness incorruptness righteousness uprightness squareness fair straight as an arrow on the square principle honour honourable nice indirect erect candid virtuous foursquare upfront aboveboard justice virtue morality fidelity liberality plain dealing the narrow way innocent chivalrous pristine incorruptible on the level clean-handed clean guile incorrupt large-hearted morally honor right hearted right mindedness integer vitae

10 公正

even right natural equal reasonable honest upright lawful equitable impartial colorless unprejudiced right-minded evenhanded fair fairly justice equity virtue honesty impartiality candor liberality of right by right just clean righteous unbiased rightful disinterested fair-minded even-handed rightly squarely fairness rightness without fear or favour square independent detached detachment disinterest uprightness in all conscience in conscience in good conscience white liberal judicial cricket candid plumb magisterial dinkum equally judgment judgement soundness candour squareness right minded fair minded

11 正当

good right due fit decent legitimate orthodox rightful propriety