If you describe someone as virtuous, you mean that they have done what they ought to do and feel very pleased with themselves, perhaps too pleased. I cleaned the flat, which left me feeling virtuous. + virtuously vir·tu·ous·ly `I've already done that,' said Ronnie virtuously
of moral excellence; "a genuinely good person"; "a just cause"; "an upright and respectable man"; "the life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous"- Frederick Douglass