Honesty
['ɒnɪstɪ] or ['ɑnəsti]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) the quality of being honest.
(noun.) southeastern European plant cultivated for its fragrant purplish flowers and round flat papery silver-white seedpods that are used for indoor decoration.
錄入:撒迦利亚--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Honor; honorableness; dignity; propriety; suitableness; decency.
(a.) The quality or state of being honest; probity; fairness and straightforwardness of conduct, speech, etc.; integrity; sincerity; truthfulness; freedom from fraud or guile.
(a.) Chastity; modesty.
(a.) Satin flower; the name of two cruciferous herbs having large flat pods, the round shining partitions of which are more beautiful than the blossom; -- called also lunary and moonwort. Lunaria biennis is common honesty; L. rediva is perennial honesty.
布伦达編輯
同義詞及近義詞：
n. [1]. Integrity, probity, uprightness, fairness, justice, virtue, equity, veracity, truth, trustiness, faithfulness, honor.[2]. Sincerity, candor, frankness, plain dealing.
編輯:韦斯利
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Integrity, probity, uprightness, straightforwardness, fairness, sincerity,honor, rectitude, virtue, justice, veracity
ANT:Dishonest, chicanery, trickery, insincerity, deception, fraud, unfairness,guile
整理:鲁道夫
例句/造句/用法:
- I have always thought that Machiavelli derives his bad name from a too transparent honesty. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- He had been treated hardly and suffered, and he became hard; nevertheless he stands out in history as a man of rare, unblemished honesty. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Is not honesty the best policy? 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- Elliston has never had the honesty to do the one or the other. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- He is possessed of excellent judgment, great coolness and honesty, but he is not good on a pursuit. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- Archer's New York tolerated hypocrisy in private relations; but in business matters it exacted a limpid and impeccable honesty. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- We wondered at this extravagance of honesty and inquired into the matter. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- A sort of passionate honesty in her made it inconceivable that he should try to draw her into that familiar trap. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- For six pounds a year you may have the use of one hundred pounds, provided you are a man of known prudence and honesty. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- Your degree of respect for honesty, rich or poor, is precisely what I have no manner of concern with. 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- Yes, I met her this evening, he said, as though it were spoken under the sheer necessity of preserving honesty. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- But it was neither my place nor my wish to direct suspicion against a poor girl, whose honesty had been above all doubt as long as I had known her. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- I willingly believe it, said the knight; I have been accustomed to study men's countenances, and I can read in thine honesty and resolution. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- This motive can never be a regard to the honesty of the action. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- You don't have to preach honesty to men with a creative purpose. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
整理:奥拉