Examples of upstanding in a Sentence
upstanding members of the community
a fine, upstanding woman who deserves to be nominated to the state's highest court
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Even the most upstanding, compliant advisor can suffer catastrophic damage if a malicious or uninformed post makes it to the top of the search results.
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Chad Angle, Forbes.com, 9 June 2025
Julia is married to an older, upstanding, deeply Catholic and closeted man named Michael, who is bedridden with rheumatism.
—Mary Marge Locker, New York Times, 11 Feb. 2025
But none of these storylines was as high stakes or as bleak as Tim’s disintegration, through which the show examined all the ways in which a seemingly upstanding family man with no known history of violence might come to murder his wife and children.
—Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 8 Apr. 2025
Tim Ratliff goes from upstanding businessman and dad to raging benzo addict over the course of approximately six days.
—Jodi Guglielmi, Rolling Stone, 7 Apr. 2025
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Chad Angle, Forbes.com, 9 June 2025
Julia is married to an older, upstanding, deeply Catholic and closeted man named Michael, who is bedridden with rheumatism.
—Mary Marge Locker, New York Times, 11 Feb. 2025
But none of these storylines was as high stakes or as bleak as Tim’s disintegration, through which the show examined all the ways in which a seemingly upstanding family man with no known history of violence might come to murder his wife and children.
—Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 8 Apr. 2025
Tim Ratliff goes from upstanding businessman and dad to raging benzo addict over the course of approximately six days.
—Jodi Guglielmi, Rolling Stone, 7 Apr. 2025
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“Upstanding.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/upstanding. Accessed 14 Jun. 2025.
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upstanding
adjective
up·stand·ing
ˌəp-ˈstan-diŋ 
ˈəp-ˌstan-
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