straightness

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for straightness
Noun
  • Executive privilege allows the witness to withhold information from Congress to protect the integrity of the executive branch.
    Lauren Green, The Washington Examiner, 9 Sep. 2025
  • On July 3, 2025, Guardians right-handed starter, Luis Ortiz was flagged by betting integrity firm IC360 for allegedly throwing a pair of pitches that received an unusual amount of gambling activity.
    Bernie Pleskoff, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • What begins as a family mystery gradually opens onto broader questions of social resentment, morality and the enduring trauma of history.
    Patrick Brzeski, HollywoodReporter, 9 Sep. 2025
  • The story just keeps building on itself, adding new characters and deep complexity to what could otherwise have been a flat morality tale.
    Joe Reid, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Early birds have long basked in the glory of health superiority, sometimes even tinged with a hit of moral righteousness.
    Erica Sloan, SELF, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Jay goes to visit his other daughter in San Diego, and Jessica, played with snappish righteousness by Riley Keough, more or less hates him.
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 28 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Becoming a saint In the Catholic faith, sainthood is reserved for those who have lived a life of heroic virtues, offered their life for others or died for their faith, according to the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.
    Lauren Costantino September 6, Miami Herald, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Was one of Forest’s virtues last season their relative simplicity, which will now be disrupted?
    Nick Miller, New York Times, 5 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Grandma combines all of that cheesy, starchy goodness into one casserole dish instead.
    Phoebe Evans, Southern Living, 6 Sep. 2025
  • The birds are naturally drawn to flowers, but are also known for taking pit stops at bright feeders filled with sugary goodness for them.
    Joyce Orlando, Nashville Tennessean, 4 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • Indeed, comprehensive independent police auditing would help ensure, not harm, the rectitude of police investigations.
    Mercury News Editorial, Mercury News, 22 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Please remember that the committee is not headed by Alexander Hamilton, a man of utmost probity and intelligence, but will be headed by Scott Bessent.
    Vipin Bharathan, Forbes.com, 31 July 2025
  • McKinley was a man whose probity, caution, and incrementalism shrouded his analytical adroitness and tactical boldness.
    Robert W. Merry, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 7 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Related Stories Farrelly thinks that kind of oppressive political correctness is fading and that audiences are eager to see movies that eviscerate good taste in order to land a joke again.
    Brent Lang, Variety, 5 Sep. 2025
  • That emphasis on originality over polish may come as a surprise to students trained to maximize correctness and minimize risk.
    Liz Doe Stone, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2025
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“Straightness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/straightness. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.

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