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When something is aberrant, it is unusual, not socially acceptable, or a departure from the norm.
Candor is the quality of being honest and open in speech or action.
You describe someone as a charlatan if they pretend to have special knowledge or skill that they don’t actually possess.
If you employ chicanery, you are devising and carrying out clever plans and trickery to cheat and deceive people.
A chivalrous man behaves in a polite, kind, generous, and honorable way, especially towards women.
A man who is debonair wears fashionable clothes and is sophisticated, charming, friendly, and confident.
Decorous appearance or behavior is respectable, polite, and appropriate for a given occasion.
A degenerate person is immoral, wicked, or corrupt.
When someone’s conduct is deplorable, it is shameful, very unacceptable, or disgraceful.
Something, such as a building, is derelict if it is empty, not used, and in bad condition or disrepair.
When someone’s behavior deviates from the norm, they act differently than other people; when someone deviates from a given course, they go in a different direction.
Someone who is disingenuous is not straightforward or is dishonest in what they say or do.
If you refer to the enormity of a situation, problem, or event, you mean that it is very evil or morally offensive; this word has nothing to do with physical size.
Anything or anyone errant behaves in a way that is unacceptable or wrong; for example, an errant missile travels in the wrong direction, while an errant student does not follow classroom rules.
Someone who is hypocritical pretends to be a person they are not.
Someone who is indiscreet shows lack of judgment, especially because they say or do things in public that should only be said or done privately—if at all.
People who are ingenuous are excessively trusting and believe almost everything that people tell them, especially because they have not had much life experience.
Iniquity is an immoral act, wickedness, or evil.
When a person exhibits integrity, they do what they should do, no matter what; therefore, they are honest, morally good, and honorable.
An irreproachable person is very honest and so morally upright that their behavior cannot be criticized.
Kitsch is cheap and showy art that sometimes amuses people because of its bad taste; it is often an inferior imitation of existing sophisticated art styles that have true value.
Legerdemain is the skillful use of one’s hands or the employment of another form of cleverness for the purpose of deceiving someone.
A malapropism is an unintentional and usually humorous mistake you make when you use a word that sounds similar to the word you actually intended to use but means something completely different.
Something or someone that is maleficent deliberately tries to cause harm or evil.
A malevolent person or thing is evil due to deliberate attempts to cause harm.
Malfeasance is an unlawful act, especially one committed by a trusted public official.
Malice is the strong desire to harm someone physically or emotionally because you hate them.
A mendacious person does not tell the truth.
A societal norm is the standard, model, or rule by which people conduct themselves.
A peccadillo is a slight or minor offense that can be overlooked.
If you prevaricate, you avoid giving a direct or honest answer, usually because you want to hide the truth or want to delay or avoid making a hard decision.
Probity is very moral and honest behavior.
Someone who is profligate is lacking in restraint, which can manifest in carelessly and wastefully using resources, such as energy or money; this kind of person can also act in an immoral way.
Propriety is behaving in a socially acceptable and appropriate way.
Protocol is those rules of conduct or etiquette that a given social situation demands.
A rapscallion is a young rascal, naughty child, or an older person who is dishonest and a scoundrel.
Recidivism is a falling back into an undesirable activity, especially crime, after one has temporarily stopped doing so.
If you commit a solecism, you make an error of some kind, such as one of a grammatical or social nature.
Someone who is unprincipled is unethical, immoral, or corrupt in some way.
The veracity of something is its truthfulness.
The verity of something is the truth or reality of it.
A vicious person is corrupt, violent, aggressive, and/or highly immoral.
Something that is vile is evil, disgusting, offensive, wretched, or very unpleasant.
Noun
rectitude
REK-ti-tood
Context
In a purposeful act of moral rectitude, the young boy turned in the wallet full of money that he had found on the road to the police station. Keeping the money might have been fun at first, but the boy’s inner rectitude or moral goodness would not allow him to keep something that was not his. The police sergeant praised the young fellow for his honest behavior and rectitude, and gave him a small financial reward.
Quiz:Try again!
How would you know if your new manager possesses rectitude?
They have a lot of years of experience as a manager.
They are honest and fair in the way they manage things.
They are firm and unbending in every decision they make.
Recreated Attitude Although I once was a bad boy, my recreated attitude towards life has given me a sense of moral rectitude--and so now I'm a good boy.
Examples
The school has the immaculate cheeriness of a merry monastery, and students in well-pressed blazers and ties give the place a look of impeccable rectitude.
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Sports Illustrated
If the country does not take advantage of what is clearly an international, and not an Italian-based, crisis to seek greater fiscal rectitude, there will be a high price to pay 3-5 years in the future.
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The Economist
Col. Setliff knows it, and with military rectitude he just says it’s important to get the story of what they're doing now out to the public.
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NPR
Notice how, in Boomers' hands, 1990s America is becoming a somber land obsessed with values, back-to-basics movements, ethical rectitude, political correctness, harsh punishments, and a yearning for the simple life.
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The Atlantic
Rectitude is the “state or quality of being ruled, guided, or directed” in the correct moral way.
Word Theater
William Ross Parliament has lost both rectitude and honor.
The panel shows a small video clip of either the word in actual use or a scene that represents the meaning of a word. This not only breaks up the monotony of studying words but also provides another avenue to strengthen word meaning. Enjoy!
