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
• Fiscal rectitude may only come to reign after a few bond market tantrums.
  — Mike O'Sullivan, Forbes, 21 Dec. 2024
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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 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
• 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
• But as piqued as tensions were, Cameron radiated confidence and a bedrock belief in the rectitude of the law.
  — Washington Post, 23 Sep. 2020
• 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
• 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
• And not unlike that earlier film, this one takes its tale of debauchery and rectitude and reconciles everything with a fiery third act.
  — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 19 Sep. 2025
• But the path to a better future has been blocked by partisanship and misguided concepts of fiscal rectitude.
  — James Freeman, WSJ, 6 Aug. 2021
• 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
• Ryan and Ellis focus is not so much on rectitude or certainty but on the character’s fight against her own exhaustion.
  — Chris Jones, New York Daily News, 7 Mar. 2024
• Moral rectitude, in some left-wing corners of the commentariat, is out; flagrant disregard of the social contract is in.
  — Will Gottsegen, The Atlantic, 24 Apr. 2026
• Moral rectitude, in some left-wing corners of the commentariat, is out; flagrant disregard of the social contract is in.
  — Thomas Chatterton Williams, The Atlantic, 23 Apr. 2026
• 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
• 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
• Americans have argued about the rectitude of the Vietnam War for nearly half a century.
  — USA TODAY, 11 Sep. 2017
• As schools and campuses prepare to welcome new and returning students this fall, now more than ever, strong leadership and moral rectitude are needed.
  — Michelle Asha Cooper, Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2017
• In this austere telling, disputed by many economists, the current splurge is a vindication of fiscal rectitude, rather than its negation.
  — The Economist, 11 June 2020
• 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
• Sheridan's Jamie has a quiet courage and sense of moral rectitude, which contrasts with Terry's more erratic approach to police work.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 10 Sep. 2024
• The subtler truth is that a similar kind of minimalist rectitude is what has governed the best of the older monuments in the nation’s capital.
  — Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2025
• 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
• But repetition takes a toll, and Hunter's testimony would have amplified doubts about the Bidens' rectitude.
  — Tom Benning, Dallas News, 6 Feb. 2020