paragon of virtue

collocation in English

meaningsofparagonandvirtue

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paragon
noun[C]
uk
/ˈpær.ə.ɡən/us
/ˈper.ə.ɡɑːn/
a person or thing that is perfect or has an extremely large amount of a particular ...
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virtue
noun
uk
/ˈvɜː.tʃuː/us
/ˈvɝː.tʃuː/
a good moral quality in a person, or the general quality of being ...
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(Definition ofparagonandvirtuefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Perhaps events have moved on since then and most or all small and medium firms are paragons of virtue in that regard.
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You cannot have it both ways; they cannot be paragons of virtue and, at the same time, pirates.
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We do not put ourselves forward as paragons of virtue.
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But no one should imagine that elected politicians are paragons of virtue.
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Nor did they succeed in making the population of this country paragons of virtue.
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He claimed that every man who works for a direct labour organisation is aparagonofvirtue.
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I do not expect any landlord to be aparagonofvirtue.
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One would think that an authority employing so many people would be aparagonofvirtuewhen it came to efficiency.
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That borough is very often held up alongside others as aparagonofvirtuein the management of its local affairs.
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I do not stand here as anyparagonofvirtueor religion.
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But they are not aparagonofvirtue.
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I recently had a classic example of a mail order firm—aparagonofvirtue!
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I have never yet met thatparagonofvirtuewho can spend other people's money more efficiently than he can spend his own.
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He is aparagonofvirtue.
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The qualities of local government hardly befit it to be theparagonofvirtueto which we should hand over the whole of the local health administration.
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He also presented the tyrannical manager as aparagonofvirtue.
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The medieval church upheld him as aparagonofvirtuewhile secular rulers invoked him as a prototype, a point of reference, and the symbol of imperial legitimacy and identity.
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However, they were not all paragons of virtue always acting in good faith for the 'common good'.
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Surely it is time we gave up regarding ourselves as the only paragons of virtue in an otherwise wicked world.
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They will have to be the paragons of virtue that my noble friend mentioned.
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