Synonyms and Antonyms of rectitude
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conduct that conforms to an accepted standard of right and wrong
- encouraged the graduates to go on to live lives of unimpeachable rectitude and integrity
character, decency, goodness, honesty, integrity, morality, probity, righteousness, rightness, uprightness, virtue, virtuousness
high-mindedness, honor, incorruptibility, irreproachability, irreproachableness, right-mindedness, scrupulosity, scrupulousness
appropriateness, correctness, decorousness, decorum, etiquette, fitness, propriety, seemliness
ethics, morals
impropriety, indecency, indecorum, indiscretion
debauchery, degeneracy, degradation, depravity, perversion, pervertedness, sinfulness
crookedness, dishonesty, underhandedness, unscrupulousness
lowness, meanness, viciousness, vileness
corruption
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faithfulness to high moral standards
- has a finely honed sense of rectitude that keeps him from cheating on exams
blamelessness, character, conscientiousness, decency, fairness, high-mindedness, incorruptibility, irreproachability, irreproachableness, justice, morality, nobility, reputability, respectability, right-mindedness, scrupulousness, virtue, virtuousness
corruptibility, corruption, corruptness, debasement, debauchery, decadence, degeneracy, degradation, depravity, disgrace, disgracefulness, disreputableness, dissipatedness, dissipation, dissoluteness, looseness, perversion, pervertedness, profligacy, shamelessness, venality
blameworthiness, criminality, crookedness, dishonesty, immorality, unrighteousness, unscrupulousness
knavery, rascality, roguishness
meanness, reprehensibleness, rottenness, sinfulness, vileness, villainy, wickedness, wretchedness
