Honesty
['ɒnɪstɪ] or ['ɑnəsti]
Definition
(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.
Checker: Zachariah--From WordNet
Definition
(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.
Inputed by Brenda
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Integrity, probity, uprightness, fairness, justice, virtue, equity, veracity, truth, trustiness, faithfulness, honor.[2]. Sincerity, candor, frankness, plain dealing.
Typist: Wesley
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Integrity, probity, uprightness, straightforwardness, fairness, sincerity,honor, rectitude, virtue, justice, veracity
ANT:Dishonest, chicanery, trickery, insincerity, deception, fraud, unfairness,guile
Editor: Rudolf
Examples
- I have always thought that Machiavelli derives his bad name from a too transparent honesty. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- He had been treated hardly and suffered, and he became hard; nevertheless he stands out in history as a man of rare, unblemished honesty. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Is not honesty the best policy? Plato. The Republic.
- Elliston has never had the honesty to do the one or the other. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- He is possessed of excellent judgment, great coolness and honesty, but he is not good on a pursuit. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Archer's New York tolerated hypocrisy in private relations; but in business matters it exacted a limpid and impeccable honesty. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- We wondered at this extravagance of honesty and inquired into the matter. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- A sort of passionate honesty in her made it inconceivable that he should try to draw her into that familiar trap. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- For six pounds a year you may have the use of one hundred pounds, provided you are a man of known prudence and honesty. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Your degree of respect for honesty, rich or poor, is precisely what I have no manner of concern with. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- Yes, I met her this evening, he said, as though it were spoken under the sheer necessity of preserving honesty. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- 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. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- 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. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- This motive can never be a regard to the honesty of the action. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- You don't have to preach honesty to men with a creative purpose. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
Typist: Ora