as in innocently
with purity of thought and deed
lived simply and virtuously
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Recent Examples of virtuously
The glorious sweep of progress toward Roman civilization and prosperity means the end of an idyllic, virtuously rustic Golden Age.
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Literary Hub, 3 Sep. 2025
Literary Hub, 3 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for virtuously
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The mistake begins innocently enough.—
Ana Gutierrez,
Austin American Statesman,
10 Feb. 2026
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The story starts innocently enough.—
Sergio Pereira,
Space.com,
15 Jan. 2026
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The next day at the summit, while everyone else sported their Team USA gear properly tucked and pressed, Liu showed up in something straight out of Jennifer Beal’s wardrobe in Flashdance.—
Dana O’Neil,
CNN Money,
16 Feb. 2026
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To receive the award, the authority completed governance transparency requirements including ethics training for all board members, properly conducting open and public meetings and filing financial transactions and compensation reports to the state controller in a timely manner.—
Anne Gelhaus,
Mercury News,
15 Feb. 2026
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While another woman, journalist Isabel De Leon (Genesis Rodriguez), is introduced in season 3, her relationship with Peter remains purely platonic (and focused on taking down intelligence broker Jacob Monroe).—
Ashley Boucher,
Entertainment Weekly,
19 Feb. 2026
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Bedtime reading—in a dark room, with a reading light around my neck and the aforementioned husband sleeping beside me—is purely for pleasure.—
Diana Arterian,
Literary Hub,
19 Feb. 2026
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This can create significant pressure to acquire funding – but this must always be done in an ethically and morally appropriate way.—
Brian Herman,
Fortune,
20 Feb. 2026
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At the heart of this film is a push and pull between the individual and the collective; what is morally right and what is deemed socially ‘correct’.—
Blake Simons,
Variety,
20 Feb. 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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Polak is a symbol of virtue where conscience reigns over fear and intimidation to refute the hateful and divisive rhetoric of people like Charile Kirk who self-righteously relished in denigrating and dehumanizing others in a most un-Christian way.—
Sun Sentinel Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
14 Jan. 2026
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“Virtuously.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/virtuously. Accessed 22 Feb. 2026.
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