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Improbity :: Improbity (n.) Lack of probity; want of integrity or rectitude; dishonesty.

Honorable :: Honorable (a.) Worthy of respect; regarded with esteem; to be commended; consistent with honor or rectitude.

Reclaim :: Reclaim (v. t.) To call back to rectitude from moral wandering or transgression; to draw back to correct deportment or course of life; to reform.

Justice :: Justice (a.) The quality of being just; conformity to the principles of righteousness and rectitude in all things; strict performance of moral obligations; practical conformity to human or divine law; integrity in the dealings of men with each other; rectitude; equity; uprightness.

Utilitarianism :: Utilitarianism (n.) The doctrine that utility is the sole standard of morality, so that the rectitude of an action is determined by its usefulness..

Transgressor :: Transgressor (n.) One who transgresses; one who breaks a law, or violates a command; one who violates any known rule or principle of rectitude; a sinner..

Rightfulness :: Rightfulness (n.) Moral rectitude; righteousness.

Immoral :: Immoral (a.) Not moral; inconsistent with rectitude, purity, or good morals; contrary to conscience or the divine law; wicked; unjust; dishonest; vicious; licentious; as, an immoral man; an immoral deed..

Just :: Just (a.) Conforming or conformable to rectitude or justice; not doing wrong to any; violating no right or obligation; upright; righteous; honest; true; -- said both of persons and things.

Probity :: Probity (n.) Tried virtue or integrity; approved moral excellence; honesty; rectitude; uprightness.

Wanton :: Wanton (v. t.) Wandering from moral rectitude; perverse; dissolute.

Cynical :: Cynical (a.) Given to sneering at rectitude and the conduct of life by moral principles; disbelieving in the reality of any human purposes which are not suggested or directed by self-interest or self-indulgence; as, a cynical man who scoffs at pretensions of integrity; characterized by such opinions; as, cynical views of human nature..

Tortuous :: Tortuous (a.) Fig.: Deviating from rectitude; indirect; erroneous; deceitful.

Lapse :: Lapse (v. i.) To slide or slip in moral conduct; to fail in duty; to fall from virtue; to deviate from rectitude; to commit a fault by inadvertence or mistake.

Obliquation :: Obliquation (n.) Deviation from moral rectitude.

Impeachment :: Impeachment (n.) A calling in question as to purity of motives, rectitude of conduct, credibility, etc.; accusation; reproach; as, an impeachment of motives..

Correct :: Correct (v. t.) To bring back, or attempt to bring back, to propriety in morals; to reprove or punish for faults or deviations from moral rectitude; to chastise; to discipline; as, a child should be corrected for lying..

Seduce :: Seduce (v. t.) To draw aside from the path of rectitude and duty in any manner; to entice to evil; to lead astray; to tempt and lead to iniquity; to corrupt.

Iniquity :: Iniquity (n.) Absence of, or deviation from, just dealing; want of rectitude or uprightness; gross injustice; unrighteousness; wickedness; as, the iniquity of bribery; the iniquity of an unjust judge..

Rightly :: Rightly (adv.) According to justice; according to the divine will or moral rectitude; uprightly; as, duty rightly performed..

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