rectitudinous

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for rectitudinous
Adjective
  • Jill’s teenage son Brad (George Ferrier) is just as calculating, if not nearly as savvy, pressuring his pious girlfriend Abby (Madison Wolfe) for a repeat of their prom-night hookup while pursuing other partners.
    Judy Berman, Time, 21 July 2025
  • Those healthy enough were put through a daily regimen of religious education and physical schooling intended to train them to be pious and obedient.
    Ann Foster, JSTOR Daily, 9 July 2025
Adjective
  • But Europeans cannot simply revert to a moralistic tendency to tell others what to do.
    Josep Borrell Fontelles, Foreign Affairs, 27 June 2025
  • The same moralistic spirit that once defined Minnesota’s politics now fuels passionate polarization.
    David Schultz, New York Daily News, 17 June 2025
Adjective
  • Of course, most of these sanctimonious snore-mongers linger on in one shrunken form or another, still screaming obscenities and shaking their fists at the moon.
    Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 28 June 2025
  • The smug and sanctimonious tenor of their briefing makes that plain.
    Christie D’Zurilla, Los Angeles Times, 18 June 2025
Adjective
  • Driving through deep water can also damage a vehicle's mechanical and electrical systems.
    KANSAS CITY STAR WEATHER BOT, Kansas City Star, 22 July 2025
  • Driving through deep water can also affect a vehicle's mechanical and electrical systems.
    CA Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 22 July 2025
Adjective
  • Douglass’s decision to speak on July 5, deliberately after Independence Day celebrations, symbolically underscored his argument: America’s celebration of freedom was bitterly ironic and deeply hypocritical in the context of slavery and racial oppression.
    Ed Gaskin, Boston Herald, 4 July 2025
  • Seems hypocritical compared with other legal vices allowed in the Land of Lincoln.
    Charles Selle, Chicago Tribune, 2 July 2025
Adjective
  • Following Lopez, reliever Elvis Alvarado nearly threw two spotless frames with four strikeouts until a 70 mph blooper to right resulted in a double that took him out of the game.
    Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 13 July 2025
  • Chicago tacked on another run against reliever Tim Hill in the seventh when Seiya Suzuki smacked a two-out double, then scored from second base on an infield single by Pete Crow-Armstrong.
    Peter Sblendorio, Hartford Courant, 13 July 2025
Adjective
  • Lists are no substitute for criticism, but those who take them as inimical to criticism are pharisaical.
    Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 6 Dec. 2022
  • David and Samuel explore the U.S. energy sector and evaluate what the future holds in an ESG landscape that has done its very best to bring economic incoherence to its pharisaical agenda.
    Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 16 Jan. 2022
Adjective
  • While some can be used across different hair textures, lengths, curl patterns, thicknesses, colors (natural and unnatural), and concerns, many are created with specific consumers and their needs in mind.
    Angela Trakoshis, Allure, 11 July 2025
  • Even if that means stepping into a version of themselves that feels unnatural.
    Vibhas Ratanjee, Forbes.com, 11 July 2025
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“Rectitudinous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rectitudinous. Accessed 26 Jul. 2025.

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