upright man
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.74 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see upright, man.
noun
Alternative form of upright man.
Example Sentences
- "I hope then you can cant, for by your cudgels, you sirra are an upright man."
- "And the gentry had kind hearts, and would have given baith lap and pannel to ony puir gypsy; and there was not one, from Johnnie Faa the upright man, to little Christie that was in the panniers, would cloyed a dud from them."
- "Later He gave him freedom from the Lord to live alone as an upright man to cultivate and keep His garden called Eden."
- "The Upright Man, the chief of the crew, arose from his chair, donned his gown of state, a very ancient brocade dressing gown, filched, most probably, from the wardrobe of some strolling player, grasped his baton of office, a stout oaken truncheon, and sallied forth."
- "The Upright Man who performed the ceremony was the elected King of the Beggars, the Rector Chory or Dimber-Damber."
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Synonyms
criminal leader