Sentence examples for not upstanding from inspiring English sources

And this man was not upstanding by a long shot.

Only not upstanding in this instance; more spreadeagled across two damp seats in a position that could only be comfortable to someone with no bones.

So the President gets to make guesses, perhaps about someone who has not done anything that wasn't upstanding?

Your story has to have a character or characters that your readers should care about and even root for, even if the characters aren't upstanding citizens or good-natured people.

He was not an upstanding citizen.

When he helped end apartheid, De Klerk may have been politically shrewd, but he was not morally upstanding.

In Sherwood Anderson's fictional community, as in nearly all primate societies, males are outstanding, if not always upstanding, members of the community.

Still, it's not the upstanding folks whose stories have echoed down the years and drawn generations of tourists and bohemians — it's the legacies of giants who could barely stand up.

Our heroes need not be upstanding citizens, then, but they need to be good artists, and the jury is out on Pink – one of the west coast's more free-floating sound-makers.

My husband, though perhaps not an upstanding member of the community (his fondness for the prone position works against that), is such a known homebody, so averse to travel of any kind, that the idea that he might pose a "flight risk" would have the judge falling off the bench.

Insane Clown Posse apparently not the upstanding paragons of virtue their music suggests http://t.co/EpnnqPZxch #magnets.