Definition: 1. A particular good quality or habit. 2. The quality of doing what is right and avoiding what is wrong. 3. Any admirable quality or attribute.
Use 'virtue' in a sentence:
1. She instilled in the children the virtues of good hard work, and making the best of what you have.
2. Modesty is a kind of virtue.
3. Its other great virtue, of course, is its hard-wearing quality.
4. In 1337, Petrarch began work on his rambling writing De Viris Illustribus—On Famous Men, highlighting the virtus (or virtue) of classical heroes.
5. As fire tries gold, so does adversity try virtue.
6. Harmony, balance and order are cardinal virtues to the French.
7. But completeness is no longer a virtue in the newspaper business.
8. Doctors often extol the virtues of eating less fat.
9. No matter how bad people may seem, they possess at least one virtue. Be like the humming bird and pick out the sweetness of everyone's character.
10. He became a model of clean living and Bible Belt virtues.
11. His virtue is patience.
12. She was certainly no paragon of virtue!
13. When he is without virtue, man is the most unscrupulous and savage of the animals.
14. Patience is not one of her virtues, I'm afraid.
15. It's not only because walls have ears but also because it's not a virtue that we should never speaks ill of others behind their backs.
16. The article stuck in my mind by virtue of one detail.
17. Honesty is a virtue.
18. Virtue is the antipode of selfishness.
19. The film ended most satisfactorily: vice punished and virtue rewarded.
20. We have shifted to thinness as our new mark of virtue.
21. The plan has the virtue of simplicity.
22. He was extolling the virtues of the Internet.
23. Mr Olaechea has British residency by virtue of his marriage.
24. Humility is considered a virtue.
25. He falls from virtue.
26. Leslie argues that curiosity is a much-overlooked human virtue, crucial to our success, and that we are losing it.
27. Being thin is deemed as such a virtue.
28. "Perhaps, but my prince has the most virtue," Ella said. "And that's what counts the most."
29. His work exalts all those virtues that we, as Americans, are taught to hold dear.
30. The new product is beyond all praise and has quickly taken over the market by virtue of its superior quality.
31. He excels in virtue.
32. To practice thrift is a virtue.
33. He also had an invincible faith in the medicinal virtues of garlic.
34. She could have established her own innocence and virtue easily enough.
35. He wasn't the paragon of virtue she had expected.
36. They could see no virtue in discussing it further.
37. In The Prince, he championed cunning, ruthlessness, and boldness, rather than virtue, mercy and justice, as the skills of successful leaders.
38. There was no virtue in returning to Calvi the way I had come.
39. As far as mathematicians are concerned, there's a certain virtue in wearing intellectual blinkers.
40. She delivered a homily on the virtues of family life.
41. He led a life of virtue.
42. Disney's other great virtue was the fact that his company—unlike other big corporations—had a human face.
43. You need to decorate your mind with virtue.
44. She says the programme portrayed her as a 'lady of easy virtue'.
45. Her flaws were as large as her virtues.
46. They said the greatest virtues in a politician were integrity, correctness and honesty.
47. She was certainly no paragon of virtue !
48. The movie makes a virtue out of its economy.
49. She planted the seeds of virtue in her children when they were young.
50. It's not a virtue to speak ill of others in private.
51. The great virtue of air travel is speed.
52. Virtue is the muscle tone that develops from daily and hourly training of a spiritual warrior.
53. Virtue is not confined to the Christian world.
54. Knowledge is virtue. Ignorance is vice.
55. We don't expect candidates to be paragons of virtue.
56. Now experts are extolling the virtues of the humble potato.
57. An "aristocracy of virtue and talent" thus could be recruited from all classes.
58. She got the job by virtue of her greater experience.
59. War turns morality inside out: killing and cruelty are virtues.