[ adj ] meriting respect or esteem <adj.all> an upstanding member of the community
In an interview with the Dallas Morning News, gubernatorial hairdresser Gail Huitt disclosed the secret to Ms. Richards's relentlessly upstanding hair: "I rat the tar out of it.
The defense called his crimes aberrations in an otherwise upstanding life.
Frode Olsen makes a fine, upstanding Trulove pere, and Angela Hickey a cheery old trout as Mother Goose, the brothel-mistress.
No upstanding neighborhood pub is without its windowbox of ivy and geraniums.