How to Use virtuous in a Sentence

virtuous

adjective

• She felt that she had made a virtuous decision by donating the money to charity.
• At school, none of the nuns were cruel, just stern and virtuous.
  — Marc Myers, WSJ, 21 Aug. 2018
• The honey whole wheat are a tad more healthful for the virtuous among us.
  — Noelle Carter, latimes.com, 14 June 2018
• The honey whole wheat buns are a tad more healthful for the virtuous among us.
  — Noelle Carter, charlotteobserver, 6 July 2018
• This starts a virtuous cycle by which the organisms help the plants, and the plants help the organisms, on and on.
  — Erik Kobayashi-Solomon, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2022
• This goddamn pressure to always be the smart one, the virtuous one, is dumb.
  — Damon Young, Washington Post, 14 Mar. 2022
• The gesture felt defensive, as a virtuous fig leaf on the fair’s naked avarice.
  — Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 17 May 2021
• May the new year bless you with goodness to abandon all vices and embrace all that are virtuous.
  — Woman's Day, 22 Dec. 2022
• Yet, it was always told with an antidote to that, which was how good and virtuous the world is as well.
  — New York Times, 6 Sep. 2019
• If so, Wynton Bernard might be the most virtuous person in sports.
  — Terry Baddoo, USA TODAY, 16 Aug. 2022
• Or that her takeover of the therapy group as an angry army is a virtuous move.
  — Hillary Kelly, Vulture, 2 June 2021
• Be virtuous and get the melon and berries, or splurge on moist coconut cake with coconut crème.
  — Linda Bladholm, miamiherald, 31 May 2017
• There will be no final judgment in which the virtuous are given power and the wicked are damned.
  — Dylan Matthews, Vox, 1 June 2018
• But why would something as virtuous as truth be a burden for some?
  — Rachel Elizabeth Cargle, Harper's BAZAAR, 9 Jan. 2019
• For Paulson, the key to playing the character was zeroing in to the part of Tripp that felt virtuous.
  — Diane Garrett, Variety, 10 Nov. 2021
• Quirks aside, a virtuous blend of on- and off-road performance.
  — Martin Padgett Jr., Car and Driver, 2 Aug. 2023
• The final girl is usually a virtuous virgin—hence the palate of white lace.
  — Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 13 Mar. 2024
• In the Stoic school of thought, happiness could be found only in a virtuous life.
  — Mary Stachyra Lopez, The Atlantic, 30 Apr. 2021
• Once upon a time in the faraway kingdom of Dor lived a brave and virtuous mouse who dreamed of becoming a knight.
  — James Hebert, sandiegouniontribune.com, 8 Dec. 2017
• No virtuous young lady could be alone with a man to whom she was not related.
  — Andrea Park, Marie Claire, 28 Dec. 2020
• It is less frequently said that, in order for this to be true, that press must be both virtuous and useful.
  — Charles C. W. Cooke, National Review, 12 Nov. 2020
• Aristotle, in Nicomachean Ethics, argues that a virtuous person does the right thing in the right way for the right reason.
  — Bruce Weinstein, Forbes, 31 Jan. 2022
• Send in your questions about living a balanced, virtuous life: mind, body, and soul.
  — Mark Antonio Wright, National Review, 25 Apr. 2021
• In a season like this, patience could shift from virtuous to hazardous.
  — Nick Piecoro, The Arizona Republic, 28 June 2020
• With the exception of Jenny, none of the girls is entirely virtuous while at Mrs. Teachum’s school.
  — Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian, 11 Apr. 2018
• The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful and virtuous.
  — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 21 May 2021
• Two, just like there is a vicious cycle, there is a virtuous cycle.
  — Anna Oakes, Quartz, 6 June 2023
• How was liberty to be preserved when the virtuous who believed in it were not in control?
  — Peter Stothard, WSJ, 23 Oct. 2017
• At their worst, the postwar social problem films were tendentious, preachy, and puffed up with their own virtuous motives.
  — Thomas Doherty, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Aug. 2024
• The research noted that greater investment can lead to a virtuous cycle by leading to better teams and a better product, which may make the franchise more valuable.
  — Robert Gray, Fortune, 20 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 22 Dec 2024