How to Use virtuous in a Sentence

virtuous

adjective

• She felt that she had made a virtuous decision by donating the money to charity.
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Tell them to sit in their most virtuous uncomfortable chair and take a listen.
  — Quartz Staff, Quartz, 6 Dec. 2021
• Work and health care support each other in a virtuous cycle.
  — Chris Farrell, Fortune Well, 6 Apr. 2023
• If patience is a virtue, Padres fans are as virtuous as Mother Teresa.
  — Bryce Millercolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Oct. 2022
• Smith is a workaholic, and a win-aholic, those most virtuous and therefore invisible of vices.
  — Alexandra Jacobs, New York Times, 11 Nov. 2021
• The moment enshrines a vision of the poet as a virtuous, suffering witness to the injustice of the state.
  — Sophie Pinkham, Harper's Magazine, 25 May 2021
• Think of it as the virtuous cycle of the lending and saving relationship that banks have with their customers.
  — Rob Wile, NBC News, 24 Sep. 2022
• Leave the virtuous egg white omelets for another day and make something a bit more exciting.
  — Casey Barber, CNN, 15 Apr. 2022
• For Aristotle, habit was an aid in the quest for the virtuous life, a way of unifying the will and directing it, through practice, toward what is good.
  — Meghan O’Gieblyn, Harper’s Magazine , 4 Jan. 2022
• And yet this is not a triumph for the underdog forces of all that is right and virtuous over their uncaring oppressors.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 22 Sep. 2023
• The idea that working hard, and starting to work early in life, is somehow virtuous simply isn't true, and as many of us know all too well, the hustle can be harmful.
  — Lydia Wang, refinery29.com, 1 Aug. 2021
• In his telling all the American policemen were honest and all the politicians virtuous.
  — Daniyal Mueenuddin, The New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2021
• Righting wrongs — and there are always more than enough to choose from — is virtuous, if sometimes humorless.
  — Washington Post, 13 Jan. 2022
• This creamy-yet-virtuous gratin of greens from Ivy Manning is crowned with crunchy homemade bread crumbs tossed with nutty-tasting brown butter.
  — oregonlive, 15 Nov. 2021
• For us, doing this creates a virtuous cycle that keeps on giving.
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 15 Nov. 2021
• This creates a dynamic where more wealthy but less virtuous citizens are limited in choice to the lower floors that face the cold north.
  — Charles Radclyffe, Forbes, 13 May 2021
• In the ideal conception, the emperor should be wise, just, and virtuous, bringing harmony and prosperity to the realm and to the world.
  — Michael Schuman, The Atlantic, 13 Oct. 2022
• The new episodes pick up at that exact moment, as the virtuous and dedicated police officer speaks to Assane for the first time.
  — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 11 June 2021
• This is the virtuous cycle of search engines, and Nadella believes Bing could use that cycle to quickly catch up to Google’s quality.
  — David Pierce, The Verge, 2 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 28 May 2024