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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
upstanding
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an upstanding/upright citizen (=honest and responsible)
▪ The rest of his family are honest upright citizens.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ an upstanding citizen
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A strong breeze caught the upstanding feathered plumes of her hat and blew it off.
▪ At the kitchen door, the cat, neck-fur upstanding like the spines of a hedgehog, wailed to be let out.
▪ She was a fine upstanding middle-aged lady with sharp eyes and a lucid tongue.
▪ So Gilly was an elder of the church, an upstanding member of the community.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
upstanding

14c., altered from or replacing Old English upstandene, in the literal sense, from up (adv.) + standing (see stand (v.)); see -ing (2). Figurative sense of "honest" is attested from 1863. A verb upstand "stand up, be erect, rise" is recorded from c.1200.

Wiktionary
upstanding

Etymology 1

  1. honest; reputable; respectable Etymology 2

    a. standing up v

  2. (present participle of upstand English)

WordNet
upstanding

adj. having high moral qualities; "a noble spirit"; "a solid citizen"; "an upstanding man"; "a worthy successor" [syn: noble, solid, worthy]

Usage examples of "upstanding".

When the Bishop and Bruer entered with three men deemed to be solid, upstanding citizens of Rothenberg and a notary, she blended into the background, a nonentity invisible to their esteemed eyes.

The addition of a dozen pairs of black silk stockings, several pairs of gloves, two bonnets, one with upstanding plumes and one with knots of lute-string ribbon, a nightgown, and a fine woolen shawl in shades of white, gray, and black would, she was certain, not only fill out her wardrobe, but also give Rud a disagreeable surprise when it came time to pay the bill.

Levy has been treating me like a drug-addled skank who wants to deflower her fine, upstanding son.

Legs, snuck him into some upstanding hotel where no durn greasy redskins was allowed.

For a while it was called the Raymond Place, like Will was some kind of upstanding citizen.

Watson had commenced to wander, and maybe Ed figured he needed an upstanding citizen to back him up.

Johnson asked the postmaster to come along to testify to our God-fearing characters, Ted being the closest thing we had to a upstanding citizen.

Besides, the deceased had folks back in Fort Myers, and fine upstanding folks at that.

Course, Huntington was the right sort, you know, upstanding and from a good family so there was no reason for her to doubt the captain would be pleased.

Most of Kent County believed him to be a fine upstanding citizen, which his actions made undeniable.

This theory has it that the prince, never known as the brightest light or most upstanding exemplar of the Hanover line, suffered from effects of syphilis on the brain as a result of his debauching and that he used to slum in Whitechapel and pick up lowly women.

Both cases involved an upstanding, well-off, community-pillar defendant, represented by the finest legal team money could buy, who vigorously proclaimed innocence of the savage mutilation murders of one male and one female victim by bladed weapons that were not found at the scene.

Her hair was like fine-spun platinum, with the upstanding ears adorned with sparkling red jewels.

He had lost the tips of both upstanding ears to the cold, and these were still bandaged.

They somewhat resembled Jagun the Nyssomu, but were shorter and more fragile in appearance, with wider, more upstanding ears, larger golden eyes, and sharper teeth in their broad mouths.