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virtue signal

virtue signal verb: to practice virtue signalling.

Verb

virtue signal (third-person singular simple present virtue signals, present participle virtue signaling or virtue signalling, simple past and past participle virtue signaled or virtue signalled)

  1. (intransitive) To practice virtue signalling.

Noun

virtue signal (plural virtue signals)

  1. An instance of virtue signalling.

Forms of virtue signal

Verb
third-person singular presentvirtue signals
present participlevirtue signaling
present participlevirtue signalling
past participlevirtue signaled
pastvirtue signaled
past participlevirtue signalled
pastvirtue signalled
Noun
pluralvirtue signals

Words formed from virtue signal

Questions about virtue signal

What does virtue signal mean?
Virtue signal means to practice virtue signalling.
What part of speech is virtue signal?
Virtue signal can be a verb or a noun.
What is the past tense of virtue signal?
The past tense of virtue signal is virtue signaled.

Words near virtue signal in the dictionary

  1. virtue ethics
  2. Virtue is her own reward
  3. virtue is its own reward
  4. virtue name
  5. virtue names
  6. virtue signal
  7. virtue signaled
  8. virtue signaler
  9. virtue signalers
  10. virtue signaling
  11. virtue signalled

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