English-Italian translations for rectitude

• dirittura
• rettitudine
  Si giunge a una triste conclusione sull’integrità morale dell’Assemblea quando si constata che una persona che osi confermare la sua rettitudine morale viene vilipesa con tanto accanimento. It is a sad commentary on moral probity in this House that one who dares to hold to moral rectitude is so relentlessly vilified.
  Predichiamo la rettitudine fiscale eppure continuiamo a spendere centinaia di milioni di sterline al mese per spostare interpreti, personale delle commissioni e tutti gli eurodeputati. We preach fiscal rectitude and yet we spend hundreds of millions of pounds a month on shifting our interpreters and our committee clerks and all the Members.

Definition of rectitude

• Straightness; the state or quality of having a constant direction and not being crooked or bent.
• Conformity to the rules prescribed for moral conduct; uprightness, virtue.

Related words

• insurrection
• directions
• erection
• direction
• resurrection
• directionless
• rectify
• corrective
• correction
• directional