10 Verbs to Use for the Word uprightness

We all admire in fiction the stern uprightness of Jeanie Deans: "One word would have saved me, and she would not speak it." ...

He had not been long in his new situation, before he manifested such an uprightness of conduct, such a courtesy of manners, such a purity of intention, and such a spirit of benevolence, that he attracted the notice, and gained the good opinion, of the inhabitants among whom he lived.

On almost every plantation at the South you may find one or more individuals, whose look and air show that they have preserved their self-respect as men;that with them the power of the tyrant ends with the coercion of the bodythat the soul is free, and the inner man retaining the original uprightness of the image of God.

Fortunately, those who heard these expressions were old friends, who, although they had been long unfamiliar, knew the native uprightness of the man, and still felt kindly toward one whose estrangement they knew was the effect of weak submission to the dictation of his wife, not the result of any change in his own feelings.

In this house I am losing my uprightness.

On the scaffold, he maintained the uprightness of his conduct, praised the character of the present king, and appealed from the censures of the kirk to the justice of Heaven.

God grant that I may never impute to so good a Princess all the injury which I have suffered from her friends, nor the calumnies which those about her incessantly propagate against me; although it is certain that so long as she listens to these envenomed tongues I cannot hope that she will be undeceived, nor that she will recognize the uprightness of my intentions."

His position as an outcast was clearly defined, and he ground his teeth with rage as he observed the virtuous uprightness of Mrs. Gimpson's back.

Last, but not least, he had helped to upset the plans of the men primarily responsible for the so-called "friar lands investigation" conducted by the House Committee on Insular Affairs, which cost the United States government a very large sum, and resulted in demonstrating his uprightness and the efficiency of his administration.

The judge unfortunately imputed to others his own uprightness, and we have found manyamong them Sir W.T. Charley, the present Common Sergeant vile enough to declare what he thought impossible, that we were found guilty of wilfully corrupting the morals of the people.

10 Verbs to Use for the Word  uprightness