Honest
['ɒnɪst] or ['ɑnɪst]
Definition
(adj.) gained or earned without cheating or stealing; 'an honest wage'; 'an fair penny' .
(adj.) not disposed to cheat or defraud; not deceptive or fraudulent; 'honest lawyers'; 'honest reporting' .
(adj.) marked by truth; 'gave honest answers'; 'honest reporting' .
(adj.) without pretensions; 'worked at an honest trade'; 'good honest food' .
(adj.) without dissimulation; frank; 'my honest opinion' .
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Definition
(a.) Decent; honorable; suitable; becoming.
(a.) Characterized by integrity or fairness and straight/forwardness in conduct, thought, speech, etc.; upright; just; equitable; trustworthy; truthful; sincere; free from fraud, guile, or duplicity; not false; -- said of persons and acts, and of things to which a moral quality is imputed; as, an honest judge or merchant; an honest statement; an honest bargain; an honest business; an honest book; an honest confession.
(a.) Open; frank; as, an honest countenance.
(a.) Chaste; faithful; virtuous.
(a.) To adorn; to grace; to honor; to make becoming, appropriate, or honorable.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Honorable, reputable, creditable, right, proper, equitable.[2]. Upright, virtuous, conscientious, just, true, fair, faithful, trusty, trustworthy, as good as one's word.[3]. Sincere, candid, frank.
Checker: Yale
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Honorable, upright, virtuous, proper, right, sincere, conscientious
ANT:Dishonest, dishonorable, vicious, improper, wrong, insincere
Editor: Louise
Definition
adj. full of honour: just: the opposite of thievish free from fraud: frank fair-seeming openly shown: chaste: (B.) honourable.—adv. Hon′estly.—n. Hon′esty the state of being honest: integrity: candour: a small flowering plant so called from its transparent seed-pouch: (B.) becoming deportment: (Shak.) chastity.—Make an honest woman of to marry where the woman has been dishonoured first.
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Examples
- An honest declaration! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Her honest ostentatious nature made the sharing of a merited dishonor as bitter as it could be to any mortal. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I am not ashamed to tell you the honest truth. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- A slight snore was the only reply: the honest stockbroker was asleep, and so the rest of Joseph's story was lost for that day. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The honest face, so full of grief, and with such an imploring expression of affection and sympathy, struck his master. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- You don't know what she endured, sir, said honest Dobbin with a tremor in his voice, and I hope and trust you will be reconciled to her. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- We need only note two of their names, Carnot, who was an honest republican, and Barras, who was conspicuously a rogue. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- But further precaution was still due to the sweat of this honest fellow's brow. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The honest Irish maid-servant, delighted with the change, asked leave to kiss the face that had grown all of a sudden so rosy. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Her family--her beggarly family--turned their backs on her for marrying an honest man, who had made his own place and won his own fortune. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- His honest eyes fire up, and sparkle, as if their depths were stirred by something bright. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- The economic conflicts are at once raised to a plane of research, experiment and honest deliberation. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- If anyone says that I attempted to stop your marriage by any but honest means, that person, too, does not speak the truth. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- I suppose you have looked all round and tried all honest means? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The T'other Governor he's always joked his jokes agin me, owing, as I believe, to my being a honest man as gets my living by the sweat of my brow. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- To the party worker the petty and the honest issue are equally disturbing. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Lord Steyne read it, everybody but honest Rawdon, to whom it was not necessary to tell everything that passed in the little house in May Fair. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Not that Emmy, being made aware of the honest Major's passion, rebuffed him in any way, or felt displeased with him. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Sir, I _feel_ honest enough, said Graham; and a genuine English blush covered his face with its warm witness of sincerity. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- We won't make an author of you, while there's an honest trade to be learnt, or brick-making to turn to. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Our treasure was warranted sober and honest. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- I think, there is hardly anything honest that his family would object to more, said Mrs. Garth, decidedly. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Love is the dismallest thing where the lover is quite honest. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- I'm a settin' on Mr. and Mrs. Raggles's sofy, which they bought with honest money, and very dear it cost 'em, too. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- In honest words, her money was necessary to me, and in a situation like mine, any thing was to be done to prevent a rupture. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- Are there no honest ones? Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- I know not whether I am a true philanthropist; yet I am willing to aid you to the utmost of my power in a purpose so honest. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- It is a mistake in being too honest when dealing with a scoundrel. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- This meal over, she resumed honest Rawdon's calculations of the night previous, and surveyed her position. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Quite true,' added Mr Boffin; 'and I tested Venus by making him a pretended proposal or two; and I found him on the whole a very honest man, Wegg. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
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