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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After innocently coming up in the scene by posting songs on Soundcloud, Slayyyter finally signed to a major label last year.—
Selena Fragassi,
SPIN,
1 Apr. 2026
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Bethenny Frankel was innocently applying a roller on her face to help with inflammation on Thursday on Instagram.—
Madeleine Marr,
Miami Herald,
13 Mar. 2026
Adverb
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Grace's spaceship can be spun like a centrifuge to create artificial gravity so that scientific instruments will work properly.—
Tara Haelle,
NPR,
12 Apr. 2026
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An existential crisis that can only be properly conveyed through Academy Award winner Susan Sarandon.—
Alejandra Gularte,
Vulture,
12 Apr. 2026
Adverb
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To address the challenge, the team designed a swap gate based purely on geometric phases, that exchanges the quantum state of two qubits.—
Georgina Jedikovska,
Interesting Engineering,
9 Apr. 2026
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If the question was purely about having money to spend, traditional luxury would be booming as well.—
Fortune,
Fortune,
9 Apr. 2026
Adverb
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This is where funding for such morally controversial medical interventions belongs.—
DP Opinion,
Denver Post,
10 Apr. 2026
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Much of the original cast and crew are returning, including Baesel and Angela Goethals as a morally questionable journalist who becomes Leslie’s ultimate final girl.—
Alison Foreman,
IndieWire,
10 Apr. 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 16 Apr. 2026.
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