Sentence examples for less virtuous from inspiring English sources

The reality is less virtuous.

But there are less virtuous reasons why the hospitals offered such a generous-sounding deal.

Others insisted they would never dream of shortchanging drivers but offered tales of less virtuous friends.

There's also a selection of baked goods for the less virtuous.

Egan was nervous about her sons' discovering some of the less virtuous aspects of her past.

The consensus on Chelsea has held for both virtuous and less virtuous reasons.

But some vulnerability to these disruptive forces is present even in more-or-less virtuous people; that is why even a good political community needs laws and the threat of punishment.

For actors such as Bogart and Tracy (plus James Cagney and Edward G Robinson, though less reliably virtuous), their heyday was middle age.

But what about our less than virtuous intimates?

Even this external means of seeing ourselves which, Seneca deplores, is mostly put to less than virtuous uses serves a purpose; for example, the young see the bloom of their youth, thus being reminded that this is the time for study and bravery (NQ 1.16.1 17.10; cf. Williams 2005).

The plot focuses on a standard love story but with characters that exhibit less than virtuous characteristics.