You are responsible only for your own uprightness. See to that and all else will take care of itself. - Miles Williams Mathis
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Uprightness
//ˌʌpˈɹaɪtnəs//
Synonyms for "uprightness" (38 found)
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Closest matches (8)
Strong matches (11)
Related words (19)
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17 translations across 5 languages.
Catalan
2 entries- dretor noun (state of being erect or vertical)
- dretura noun (state of being erect or vertical)
French
4 entries- aplomb noun (state of being erect or vertical)
- droiture noun (state of being honest, honourable, and moral)
- intégrité noun (state of being honest, honourable, and moral)
- rectitude noun (state of being honest, honourable, and moral)
German
4 entries- Anständigkeit noun (state of being honest, honourable, and moral)
- Aufrichtigkeit noun (state of being honest, honourable, and moral)
- Ehrenhaftigkeit noun (state of being honest, honourable, and moral)
- Redlichkeit noun (state of being honest, honourable, and moral)
Irish
1 entries- ionracas noun (state of being honest, honourable, and moral)
Spanish
4 entries- derechura noun (state of being erect or vertical)
- erguimiento noun (state of being erect or vertical)
- honradez noun (state of being honest, honourable, and moral)
- integridad noun (state of being honest, honourable, and moral)
Sample sentences
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[S]uch as therefore ſhould not be adventured vpon vvithout mature and vnpartiall diſquiſition of the vprightneſſe of our affections therein, […]
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It is singular how forcibly this passage in my narrative brings to my mind a picture which used to be, some years ago, at a broker's—that charnel-house of the comforts and graces of life. It had been taken out of its frame, and leant in a dark and dusty corner against a perpendicular armchair, whose rigid uprightness seemed suited only to the parlour of a dentist, repose being the last idea it suggested.
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