Virtuously
['vɝtʃʊəsli]
Examples
- Like many men who take life easily, he had the knack of saying a home truth occasionally to those who felt themselves virtuously out of temper. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- But the finest sport of all after her presentation was to hear her talk virtuously. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Biddy, said I, in a virtuously self-asserting manner, I must request to know what you mean by this? Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
Edited by Adela