as in innocently
with purity of thought and deed
lived simply and virtuously
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Recent Examples of virtuously
Some of us virtuously recycle items that will be transported across the world to smother island nations in single-use plastic bags and water bottles, milk jugs, yogurt tubs, pet food and potato chip bags, Styrofoam meat trays, Coke bottles, Amazon mailing envelopes, and fast-food wrappers.
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Caroline Fraser, The New York Review of Books, 4 Apr. 2026
The glorious sweep of progress toward Roman civilization and prosperity means the end of an idyllic, virtuously rustic Golden Age.
—Literary Hub, 3 Sep. 2025
Caroline Fraser, The New York Review of Books, 4 Apr. 2026
The glorious sweep of progress toward Roman civilization and prosperity means the end of an idyllic, virtuously rustic Golden Age.
—Literary Hub, 3 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for virtuously
Adverb
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There’s a particularly tragic scene where Natalia, lured on holiday by Elsa, spots a small child innocently giggling at the table across from her at dinner.—
Lily Ford,
HollywoodReporter,
15 May 2026
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For the person who innocently took her rugby kit to the hospital four years ago, representing her country would feel like a just reward for Balogun’s perseverance and strength of will.—
George Ramsay,
New York Times,
7 May 2026
Adverb
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At least one person died and a child who was properly restrained in a car seat is OK, officers said.—
Brandon Downs,
CBS News,
7 June 2026
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If the reasoning in the memo struck immigration lawyers as dubious, this may have been because the agency’s office of chief counsel failed to properly vet it.—
Jonathan Blitzer,
New Yorker,
7 June 2026
Adverb
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The Nuvolari is essentially an evolution of the Concept C (which was previously touted as purely electric) that wowed last year, down to the color.—
Jerry Perez,
The Drive,
4 June 2026
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The act of doing so for purely partisan purposes has been ruled constitutional by the courts.—
David M. Drucker,
Twin Cities,
3 June 2026
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The system claims ethically to create security and trust while morally destabilizing identity continuity and socially displacing human judgment with procedural authority.—
Hamilton Mann,
Forbes.com,
27 May 2026
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Europe’s newfound openness to African industrialization is not because dependency suddenly became morally objectionable, but because Europe increasingly fears dependency itself.—
W. Gyude Moore,
semafor.com,
25 May 2026
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The darkly comic crime drama pits Frances McDormand's righteously furious mom against a police force that hasn't caught her daughter's killer.—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
4 Mar. 2026
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But O’Hara is best known for her role as Kate McCallister in Home Alone, the distracted, frantic, righteously determined mom to Macaulay Culkin’s precocious 8-year-old Kevin.—
Kathryn VanArendonk,
Vulture,
30 Jan. 2026
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“Virtuously.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/virtuously. Accessed 10 Jun. 2026.
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