Read full poem →“thou must!” and who replies “I can!”
--yon clean upstanding well dressed boy
that with his peers full oft hath quaffed
Dictionary Entry
Honest; reputable; respectable
In a Sentence
“An upstanding merchant will exchange a faulty product.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
citizens upstandingcitizen upstandingyoung upstandingman upstanding. upstandingmember upstandingupstanding fineupstanding morally
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Poetry examples for “upstanding”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →_'im_, why not giv' up this suffrage business and live a bit with me
here? There's plenty of upstanding, decent, Belgian men in good
positions as'd like to have an English wife. _They_ wouldn't look