How to Use virtuous in a Sentence

virtuous

adjective
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  • She felt that she had made a virtuous decision by donating the money to charity.
  • At school, none of the nuns were cruel, just stern and virtuous.
    — Marc Myers, WSJ, 21 Aug. 2018
  • The honey whole wheat are a tad more healthful for the virtuous among us.
    — Noelle Carter, latimes.com, 14 June 2018
  • The honey whole wheat buns are a tad more healthful for the virtuous among us.
    — Noelle Carter, charlotteobserver, 6 July 2018
  • This starts a virtuous cycle by which the organisms help the plants, and the plants help the organisms, on and on.
    — Erik Kobayashi-Solomon, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2022
  • This goddamn pressure to always be the smart one, the virtuous one, is dumb.
    — Damon Young, Washington Post, 14 Mar. 2022
  • The gesture felt defensive, as a virtuous fig leaf on the fair’s naked avarice.
    — Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 17 May 2021
  • May the new year bless you with goodness to abandon all vices and embrace all that are virtuous.
    — Woman's Day, 22 Dec. 2022
  • Yet, it was always told with an antidote to that, which was how good and virtuous the world is as well.
    — New York Times, 6 Sep. 2019
  • If so, Wynton Bernard might be the most virtuous person in sports.
    — Terry Baddoo, USA TODAY, 16 Aug. 2022
  • Or that her takeover of the therapy group as an angry army is a virtuous move.
    — Hillary Kelly, Vulture, 2 June 2021
  • There will be no final judgment in which the virtuous are given power and the wicked are damned.
    — Dylan Matthews, Vox, 1 June 2018
  • But why would something as virtuous as truth be a burden for some?
    — Rachel Elizabeth Cargle, Harper's BAZAAR, 9 Jan. 2019
  • For Paulson, the key to playing the character was zeroing in to the part of Tripp that felt virtuous.
    — Diane Garrett, Variety, 10 Nov. 2021
  • Quirks aside, a virtuous blend of on- and off-road performance.
    — Martin Padgett Jr., Car and Driver, 2 Aug. 2023
  • The final girl is usually a virtuous virgin—hence the palate of white lace.
    — Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 13 Mar. 2024
  • In the Stoic school of thought, happiness could be found only in a virtuous life.
    — Mary Stachyra Lopez, The Atlantic, 30 Apr. 2021
  • No virtuous young lady could be alone with a man to whom she was not related.
    — Andrea Park, Marie Claire, 28 Dec. 2020
  • It is less frequently said that, in order for this to be true, that press must be both virtuous and useful.
    — Charles C. W. Cooke, National Review, 12 Nov. 2020
  • Aristotle, in Nicomachean Ethics, argues that a virtuous person does the right thing in the right way for the right reason.
    — Bruce Weinstein, Forbes, 31 Jan. 2022
  • Send in your questions about living a balanced, virtuous life: mind, body, and soul.
    — Mark Antonio Wright, National Review, 25 Apr. 2021
  • In a season like this, patience could shift from virtuous to hazardous.
    — Nick Piecoro, The Arizona Republic, 28 June 2020
  • With the exception of Jenny, none of the girls is entirely virtuous while at Mrs. Teachum’s school.
    — Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian, 11 Apr. 2018
  • The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful and virtuous.
    — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 21 May 2021
  • Two, just like there is a vicious cycle, there is a virtuous cycle.
    — Anna Oakes, Quartz, 6 June 2023
  • The virtuous rolled out on the streets of London today, and most of them that were there come from upper middle class families.
    — Fox News, 15 July 2018
  • Monday is a virtuous bowl of crunchy veg drizzled with peanut sauce eaten on a sunny stoop.
    — Alyse Whitney, Bon Appétit, 25 Feb. 2021
  • But for Irwin and Joan Jacobs, patience was indeed virtuous, and in more ways than one.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Apr. 2021
  • Hugo Reyes, best known as Hurley, was easily the most virtuous member of this troubled group.
    — Rebecca Bodenheimer, The Atlantic, 30 Sep. 2024
  • Still, the war between the virtuous Autobots and the sniveling Decepticons has enough sheer weirdness to it to serve as inspiration for compelling fiction, even if Michael Bay has never managed to crack that code.
    — Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 12 Sep. 2024

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