you're virtuous

Grammar usage guide and real-world examples

In any case, she said, such efforts are "microscopic" compared with the large numbers of people who continue to see weight "as almost like a moral issue -- it's like you're virtuous if you restrain yourself and you're sinful if you give in".

His White House runs on the idea that if you are virtuous and true and honorable, people will ultimately come to you.

Can you be virtuous and bourgeois?

If you were virtuous you always did what was morally right.

If you were virtuous, according to the Stoics, you were "good", therefore happy, and this was moral perfection.

They're virtuous girls".

They're virtuous, they save themselves for 20 years.

Do you think being virtuous has become uncool?

He knew, for instance, that "you may be virtuous, and wise, and good" but that it also helps to turn up the lights.

With a little willpower, you could be virtuous for an entire year, and probably even longer.

Your mind will tell you it's virtuous to make someone's day in ways that make your own day stressful, but trust me -- that just cancels out the overall benefit.