virtuousadjective
uk/ˈvɜː.tʃu.əs/us/ˈvɝː.tʃu.əs/having good moral qualities and behaviour:
He described them as virtuous and hard-working people.
disapproving A virtuous person thinks himself or herself morally better than other people:
He only does charity work so he can feel virtuous.
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Virtue and moral good
- altruism
- angel
- angelic
- be as pure as the driven snow idiom
- be on the side of the angels idiom
- clean
- goodness
- lily-white
- moral
- nobility
- noble
- principled
- pure
- selfless
- spinach
- straight
- the road to hell is paved with good intentions idiom
- the straight and narrow idiom
- unselfish
- virtue
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virtuously
adverb uk/ˈvɜː.tʃu.əs.li/us/ˈvɝː.tʃu.əs.li/