as in integrity
conduct that conforms to an accepted standard of right and wrong
a person of such unaffected goodness that his friends were inspired to lead better lives
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Recent Examples of goodness
And all of the questions, my mom said, ‘My goodness, everybody was so prepared.
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Ella Lee, The Hill, 6 May 2026
This healthy no-cook potluck dish is full of fruit and vegetable goodness.
—Ginger Crichton, Midwest Living, 5 May 2026
My goodness, are we doomed to be Bucks West?
—Troy Renck, Denver Post, 4 May 2026
Thank goodness the team has seen fit to lessen his role.
—Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 4 May 2026
See All Example Sentences for goodness
Ella Lee, The Hill, 6 May 2026
This healthy no-cook potluck dish is full of fruit and vegetable goodness.
—Ginger Crichton, Midwest Living, 5 May 2026
My goodness, are we doomed to be Bucks West?
—Troy Renck, Denver Post, 4 May 2026
Thank goodness the team has seen fit to lessen his role.
—Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 4 May 2026
See All Example Sentences for goodness
Recent Examples of Synonyms for goodness
Noun
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Check the integrity of your caulk at siding seams and in the corners.—
Hiranmayi Srinivasan,
Better Homes & Gardens,
17 May 2026
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Ordinary workshop cutters would have struggled with both the scale and material constraints, making outsourcing the most reliable option for maintaining structural integrity and dimensional precision in the build.—
Bojan Stojkovski,
Interesting Engineering,
17 May 2026
Noun
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These morality tales, focusing on figures like Michael Milken and Ivan Boesky, make an implicit claim that individual avarice somehow explains the excesses of an entire era.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
15 May 2026
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As this memoir opens, Iran’s morality police stalk the university where Nafisi works, censuring her female students.—
The Atlantic,
The Atlantic,
14 May 2026
Noun
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The American Dream is a myth that claims that great ambition and hard work will be rewarded, but the American Experience isn’t one in which virtue prevails.—
Brent Lang,
Variety,
19 May 2026
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In the final editing stages, the video, which is currently two minutes long, has celebrity cameos and hints at the unique virtues of New York, is part of the first collaboration between Hilfiger and Kelce, the fashion brand’s latest celebrity spokesman.—
Jeff Fedotin,
Forbes.com,
18 May 2026
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Miller also addresses contemporary politics, the recent presidential election and how honesty is in flux in our country.—
Fiction Non Fiction,
Literary Hub,
21 May 2026
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Intellectual honesty requires acknowledging that the United States is not Weimar Germany or Eastern Europe’s Pale of Settlement, where deadly pogroms against Jews were a regular feature of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.—
Michael W. Sonnenfeldt,
The Atlantic,
20 May 2026
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“Goodness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/goodness. Accessed 22 May. 2026.
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