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单词 rectitude
释义
rectitude
noun[U]
formal
uk
/ˈrek.tɪ.tʃuːd/us
/ˈrek.tə.tuːd/
honestyandcorrectmoralbehaviour:
公正；正直；诚实
Anaustereman ofunquestionedmoralrectitude, Navainspireddeepdevotionin those whoworkedfor him.纳瓦的简朴作风和正直品行有口皆碑，使得员工们对其忠心耿耿。
Synonym
uprightnessapproving
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Honesty, openness & sincerity
  • above board
  • anti-corruption
  • artless
  • artlessly
  • artlessness
  • bone
  • honestly
  • honourable
  • honourably
  • in
  • in all honesty/seriousness/truthfulnessidiom
  • in good faithidiom
  • joke
  • nail
  • skinny
  • squeaky-clean
  • stainless
  • straight arrowidiom
  • straight upidiom
  • the straight and narrowidiom
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(Definition ofrectitudefrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofrectitude

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The markets took this as a reassuring sign of the government's fiscalrectitude.
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The gold standard provided just such an ideology, supported by a rhetoric of morality andrectitude.
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Their touchstone was legal and financialrectituderather than any wider 'service to the community'.
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The representationalrectitude, as it were, of the passage has to do with critical competence, with the use of right-sounding language.
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In doing so, it problematizes both its own suggestiveness and the 'moralrectitude' of its tragic ending.
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No, but they needed to be made aware that its pretence to scientificrectitudewas a sham.
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When rendering a verdict, he adopts a posture ofrectitudeand knowledge.
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In this reconciliation, the rite is construed as a paradigmatic situation that seeks divinerectitudethrough the drama of conversion.
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It maintained a vigilant attitude toward lapses in moralrectitudeon the part of both teachers and students.
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These characteristics owed much to an inner conviction that drew on a strong personal piety, and a clear sense of morality; a conviction inclined torectitude, not subtlety.
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For the sake of decorum and propriety, our passions live behind a mask of reason andrectitude, our lives being lived according to that which is pre-destined for us.
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Yet when a "scion of this family, in an unguarded moment," had stepped from "the paths ofrectitude," he had started a line of mental defectives.
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Displayingrectitudeto these central departments, even if at the cost of one's minister's reputation, may improve the standing of both an individual and (in the long term) a department.
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Cicero, although his practice could be scurrilous, his jokes scandalous, his timing split-second, made his appeals ultimately to ponderous tradition and the maintenance of a position of moralrectitude.
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They suffer from a kind of unctuousrectitudewhich is disliked by foreigners and their overseas kinsmen.
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