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Definition

upstanding /ʌp'stændÇŋ / adj ( fml or rhet ) ၁။ ေတာ္ေျဖာင့္ေသာ။ ေတာ္မွန္ေသာ။ upstanding members of the city council. ၂။ ေထာင္ေထာင္ေမာင္းေမာင္း။ a fine upstanding young man.

Examples

1. ‘Luckily
2. he succeeded
3. and is now an upstanding member of society.’
4. ‘People - apparently respectable
5. upstanding people - actually justifying these unspeakable crimes.’
6. ‘An upstanding member of the community who has been deeply involved in prison matters for many years called me in distress just a month or so ago.’
7. ‘It's nice to know what a fine upstanding member of society he finds me.’
8. ‘You used to be such an upstanding member of your community.’
9. ‘They are potentially fine upstanding members of the community.’
10. ‘We have upstanding members of our society
11. citizens who are willing to toe the line and know what the law is.’
12. ‘Mr Watts-Jones told the court his client had outgrown the misbehaviour of his youth and become an upstanding member of the community
13. with a respectable job
14. a wife and two teenage children.’
15. ‘He was a man of good character
16. a religious man and an upstanding member of the public.’
17. ‘You are upstanding members of the community who feel passionately about something.’
18. ‘He clearly was neither a law-abiding person nor an upstanding member of the local community.’
19. ‘Now that I found out he was an upstanding and respected police officer
20. I felt so helplessly worthless.’
21. ‘But I think it came at a moment when Americans were particularly hungry for someone they could perceive as honest
22. upstanding
23. and a hero.’
24. ‘But neither of the victims
25. he concedes
26. were the most honest and upstanding of people.’
27. ‘A human rights solicitor said that burglars had the same human rights as upstanding members of the community.’
28. ‘These people are modest
29. hard-working honest people and a lot of us could learn a lesson or two from them in how to treat both man and animals.’
30. ‘For more than four decades the father-of-two lived as a devoted family man
31. successful businessman and upstanding member of the community in rural Buchlyvie
32. Stirlingshire.’
33. ‘The fine upstanding members of the city council were only doing their job
34. and it's the job that we elected them to do.’
35. ‘She had changed the story about my father into one in which he seemed more like a hero or an upstanding member of society struggling against an addiction and winning.’
36. ‘But he consistently strove to be an upstanding member of society
37. to raise a healthy family
38. and to make a meaningful contribution to the world.’