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He wanted students who showed "unctuous rectitude" as part of his original requirements.

Some MPs have shown Cromwellian rectitude; the cynic's mantra that they are all bad is nonsense.

They insist that the party is showing its fiscal rectitude by fighting with the unions over backing public sector pay curbs and pledging a post-election "zero-based" spending review (that is, one which starts from zero rather than starting with asking whether to cut existing budgets).

Bishop: it connotes rectitude and righteousness.

"Make Tuesday 'take a child to vote day.' Show your civic rectitude and, since children love secrets, introduce them to one of the greatest thrills of democracy: one person, one vote and the secret ballot".

A shame therefore that the rectitude shown here has been rarely mirrored in print or broadcast elsewhere from the moment the tsunami struck, especially with matters nuclear.

It requires moral rectitude to separate public service from private gain.

The pro-life cause (and the Republican platform that parrots it) has staked its moral rectitude on the belief that life begins at conception.

Two months later, after a charm offensive by Mr Draghi, the paper relented, praising his Germanic rectitude and showing a picture of him under a Pickelhaube (a spiked Prussian helmet).

The Dindons are pillars of rectitude; indeed, Monsieur Dindon is a leader of the Tradition, Family, and Morality Party, whose express aim is to shut down the drag shows in Saint-Tropez.

Despite worrying recent signs of authoritarianism, the Turks have in general shown religious moderation and constitutional rectitude, and have successfully tamed a coup-prone army (see article).