virtuous

Word family

1 formal behaving in a very honest and moral way 有德行的，品行端正的 OPP wicked

a virtuous man

品行端正的男子

Sue considered herself very virtuous because she neither drank nor smoked.

休認爲自己品行非常端正，因爲她既不喝酒也不抽煙。

2. PROUD old use not willing to have sex, at least until you are married 貞潔的，婚前保持童貞的

—virtuously adverbadv

Examples from the Corpus

virtuous• Why did she feel so much more a person when she was not being virtuous?• All the characters are sensitive, virtuous beings and the pursuit of happiness is a constant goal with each of them.• Certainly censorship should not be allowed to masquerade as virtuous compromise, but nor should commitment to free speech go unexamined.• However, Hume thought that qualities other than benevolence were virtuous if they produced the feeling of approval.• Father Tom was a hard-working, virtuous man, liked and respected by everyone.• Misfortune was surmounted, and misfortune became too great a burden; virtuous reputations were earned, and scandalous stories were recounted.• The story repeats the theme of the unfaithful husband and virtuous wife.• They wanted him to marry a virtuous young woman from a respectable family.

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Corpus

TOEFL IELTS BNC: 14599 COCA: 12389

virtuous adj.
⇨ good 5

TOEFL IELTS BNC: 14599 COCA: 12389

virtuous

Morally good or correct: moral, correct, right...