1 (formal) behaving in a very good and moral way:
a wise and virtuous man * She lived an entirely virtuous life.
2 (disapproving or humorous) claiming to behave better or have better morals than other people:
He was feeling virtuous because he had finished and they hadn't.
virtuously adverb
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for virtuous is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is virtuous a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, virtuous is tagged as adjective.
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