adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
circle
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How do you pull off this virtuous circle ?
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In good times trade and investment links set up a virtuous circle where growth in one economy boosts others.
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One view was that they form a kind of virtuous circle of equally basic expressions definable in terms of each other.
man
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Everybody agreed that Senator Daley was a virtuous man .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Father Tom was a hard-working, virtuous man, liked and respected by everyone.
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The story repeats the theme of the unfaithful husband and virtuous wife.
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They wanted him to marry a virtuous young woman from a respectable family.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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All the characters are sensitive, virtuous beings and the pursuit of happiness is a constant goal with each of them.
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Certainly censorship should not be allowed to masquerade as virtuous compromise, but nor should commitment to free speech go unexamined.
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However, Hume thought that qualities other than benevolence were virtuous if they produced the feeling of approval.
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Misfortune was surmounted, and misfortune became too great a burden; virtuous reputations were earned, and scandalous stories were recounted.
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Why did she feel so much more a person when she was not being virtuous ?