(n.) Rightness of principle or practice; exact conformity to truth, or to the rules prescribed for moral conduct, either by divine or human laws; uprightness of mind; uprightness; integrity; honesty; justice.
(n.) Right judgment.
Example Sentences:
(1) Yet the Tory promise of fiscal rectitude prevailed in England Alexander had been in charge of Labour’s election strategy, but he could not strategise a victory over a 20-year-old Scottish nationalist who has not yet taken her finals.
(2) When you have champions of financial rectitude such as the International Monetary Fund and OECD warning of the international risk of an "explosion of social unrest" and arguing for a new fiscal stimulus if growth continues to falter, it's hardly surprising that tensions in the cabinet over next month's spending review are spilling over.
(3) At 6ft 3in tall, the lanky Peck was a pillar of moral rectitude standing up for decency and tolerance.
(4) The use of this therapeutic group follows precise rules: far and near rectitude, normal binocular vision.
(5) Once in charge, they believe they are done with such childish things, and can’t conceive of circumstances in which they will be judged – especially when convinced of their own rectitude.
(6) But this is a crude morality tale that infers moral rectitude from market success.
(7) ‘The only guide to a man is his own conscience; the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions.’” The church has recently voiced its disquiet over government reforms to the economy and welfare.
(8) It was then that we encountered an assortment of reputable commentators in the English broadsheets depart from the norms of rectitude and integrity that characterise their writing.
(9) Despite deep cuts, inflicting real hardship, he had to slip two years and delay fiscal rectitude until 2017-18, but to no great outcry.
(10) But to the incredulity of his own supporters, the chancellor sticks to the path of fiscal rectitude.
(11) Activists reported that the child benefit announcement, designed to demonstrate fiscal rectitude, went down especially badly on the doorstep in the Heywood and Middleton byelection campaign – where Ukip is looking like a potentially serious challenger to Labour next month.
(12) After all, this turns out to be the week that the scourge of capitalism John McDonnell lectures on fiscal rectitude, scourge of the lobby Jeremy Corbyn celebrates 32 years of rebellion by leading the party into a new era, and the moon turns red.
(13) health, work, generosity rectitude, authority, attractiveness, integrity etc., are, in their evaluation, influenced both by sex and by the hygienic behavior practiced.
(14) It will be hard to overcome decades of mistrust, but we will proceed with courage, rectitude and resolve.
(15) In cinemas, meanwhile, Captain America: the Winter Soldier – featuring a superhero who rivals Superman for square-jawed rectitude – just set a record for the month of April by scoring $96.2m (£58m) at the domestic box office on its opening weekend.
(16) The regulators’ decision to jettison the approach of the past three years of prioritising staffing levels ahead of financial rectitude has been prompted by the NHS’s increasingly frantic efforts to tackle the spiralling deficit which hospitals in England are racking up, projected to be £2.2bn by the end of March.
(17) For southern Europe as a whole, the single currency has proved to be a golden cage, forcing greater fiscal and monetary rectitude but removing the exchange rate as a critical cushion against unexpected shocks.
(18) There was no reform of the force; indeed political support for it, given personally from Thatcher, seems to have hardened Wright’s sense of rectitude.
(19) In case of complete palsies, the objective consists in obtaining primary gaze rectitude.
(20) But Labour, too, is hamstrung by its unnecessary fiscal rectitude bill, binding itself to cut the deficit in half in just four years, copying the Tories again.
Turpitude
Definition:
(n.) Inherent baseness or vileness of principle, words, or actions; shameful wickedness; depravity.
Example Sentences:
(1) In addition, the results support the view that the addictive "disease" model is a symbolic substitute for the moral turpitude model which it replaced.
(2) We are 52 episodes in now… "It's a curious phenomenon, I suppose, given the moral turpitude of that character," he says, and he laughs.
(3) But thousands of protesters have since staged rallies, arguing that army guidelines disqualify soldiers guilty of moral turpitude from being buried there, although Marcos was never found liable in a criminal case.
(4) A court found that his crimes entailed “moral turpitude”, which under Israeli law would preclude Olmert from running for public office for seven years after his release.
(5) When Gwyneth Paltrow was photographed last summer wearing double-strap Arizona Birkenstocks around London, while rehearsing for her performance in the play Proof, many tabloid magazines took the absence of a notable high heel as evidence of depression, turpitude and mortal lack of self-esteem.
(6) Inglis is a woman whose crime was a response to a long catalogue of terrible misfortunes, none of them in the smallest way due to her own choices, mistakes or turpitudes.
(7) We have to swallow the idea that he is not a liar, and then listen to this supposedly super-inept manager lecturing public servants on their moral turpitude and inefficiency.
(8) Luis Suarez is old news when it comes to manufactured outrage and out-of-proportion accusations of moral turpitude, and so it's Arjen Robben's turn at the moment.
(9) It is moral turpitude, depravity, to build more coal-fired power plants or open coal mines, knowing what we know now," he said.