How to Use virtue signaling in a Sentence

virtue signaling

noun
  • Spare us your virtue signaling noise.
    — Janelle Ash, FOXNews.com, 6 Feb. 2026
  • Bunch of virtue signaling clowns!
    — Zach Dean Outkick, FOXNews.com, 15 June 2026
  • For them, theft is a kind of perverse virtue signaling.
    — Thomas Chatterton Williams, The Atlantic, 23 Apr. 2026
  • Having a cat is, in this account, a form of virtue signaling.
    — Rebecca Van Laer september 30, Literary Hub, 30 Sep. 2025
  • The Great Lock-In felt like virtue signaling wrapped in a self-care bow.
    — Ayana Underwood, Outside, 28 Oct. 2025
  • So then comes the course correction, consisting of even more virtue signaling.
    — Rachel Marsden, Hartford Courant, 3 Apr. 2024
  • This is not identity politics gussied up for the market, not more virtue signaling.
    — Jerry Saltz, Vulture, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Governing is not about building a brand or talking on social media and virtue signaling.
    — Chuck Todd, NBC News, 15 May 2023
  • But when these laws lead to an embrace of what feels like costly and empty virtue signaling, of course the public should be frustrated.
    — U T Editorial Board, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Mar. 2025
  • Though Maggie is writing a paper about virtue signalling, the script doesn’t seem to be able to give her a consciousness that is aware of it.
    — Mathew Rodriguez, Them., 10 Oct. 2025
  • Just a bunch of whataboutisms, the spreading of lies, virtue signaling and pandering to the far fringes of their political party.
    — Bobby Zirkin, Baltimore Sun, 24 Feb. 2025
  • Higher levels of virtue signaling, however, can come across as dishonest.
    — Jacob A. Waddingham, The Conversation, 15 Apr. 2024
  • The term virtue signaling refers to an annoying moral peacocking that has less to do with politics than with self-gratification.
    — Tom Nichols, The Atlantic, 30 Mar. 2026
  • Corporate America needs to say that, and yet the collective virtue signaling has been replaced by a collective clamming up.
    — Beth Kowitt, Twin Cities, 25 Jan. 2024
  • The first day of the session usually comes with dustups and news conferences and a lot of virtue signaling — which, again, no sane person would breathlessly follow, because ugh.
    — Joanna Allhands, The Arizona Republic, 8 Jan. 2024
  • Audiences can smell the difference between social media virtue signaling and real offense.
    — Dave Itzkoff, Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2024
  • What started as a movement to create more inclusive workplaces has, in some cases, been reduced to either virtue signaling or outright rejection.
    — Jennifer Jay Palumbo, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2025
  • The MPs fretted about virtue signaling, being seen as overly radical, and alienating their voters.
    — Matt Reynolds, WIRED, 23 Sep. 2024
  • In other words, a little bit of virtue language paid off more significantly for Superhosts, but excessive virtue signaling hurt them more.
    — Jacob A. Waddingham, The Conversation, 15 Apr. 2024
  • In this new season, for instance, Brooke’s arc revolves around her ambivalence about celebrity and the pressure of pandemic-era social-media virtue signaling.
    — Phillip MacIak, The New Republic, 9 June 2023
  • Hudlin is a political filmmaker, but there’s no virtue signaling in his movie; many of the points are unspoken and simply woven into the fabric of the setting and the narrative.
    — Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 26 Jan. 2026
  • The statement was quite a contrast to the constant lecturing and virtue signaling of the Biden-Harris administration.
    — Dan Perry, Newsweek, 19 Feb. 2025
  • Our findings, published in one of the leading entrepreneurship journals, reveal that the price that hosts can demand for their Airbnb is influenced by the amount of virtue signaling in their listing.
    — Jacob A. Waddingham, The Conversation, 15 Apr. 2024
  • Unfortunately, as long as voters reward virtue signaling, rather than effective wildfire prevention policies, the state will continue to go up in flames.
    — Daniel Kolkey, Orange County Register, 4 Mar. 2025
  • The women in Extreme E have improved immensely over the four years of the race series’ existence, proving that the equality isn’t just virtue signaling.
    — James Morris, Forbes, 7 Sep. 2024
  • Our results show that hosts with listings in conservative-leaning counties experience stronger reactions to virtue signaling from consumers.
    — Jacob A. Waddingham, The Conversation, 15 Apr. 2024
  • Of course, there’s no way to declare that the Doctor shouldn’t be Black that isn’t out-and-out racist, and so many of these comments are couched in attacks on the producers for wokeness or virtue signaling.
    — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 22 Dec. 2023
  • The series skewers white guilt, virtue signaling, high-art pretentiousness and reality TV contrivances.
    — Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 21 Nov. 2023
  • More good old New England common sense, energy realism, and less virtue signaling would go a long way to resolve the region’s energy bottlenecks.
    — Ariel Cohen, Forbes, 9 Jan. 2025
  • That authenticity is key to connecting with more online audiences, who easily sniff out virtue signaling, Literat said.
    — Ella Lee, The Hill, 2 Apr. 2025

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