Meaning

(uncountable, countable) The act, quality, or condition of being honest..

Definitions by Sense

1. (uncountable, countable) The act, quality, or condition of being honest.
2. (uncountable, countable, obsolete) Honor; decency, propriety.
3. (uncountable, countable, obsolete) Chastity.
4. (countable) Any of various crucifers in the genus Lunaria, several of which are grown as ornamentals, particularly annual honesty (Lunaria annua).

Example Sentences

academic / artistic / emotional / intellectual honesty

brutal / devastating / searing honesty

1787, George Colman, Junior, Inkle and Yarico, London: G.G.J. & J. Robinson, Act 2, p. 45, O give me your plain dealing Fellows Who never from honesty shrink; Not thinking on all they shou’d tell us, But telling us all that they think.

There’s no trust, / No faith, no honesty in men; all perjured, / All forsworn, all naught, all dissemblers.

[…] Are you honest, boy? / Then be not spendthrift of your honesty, / But keep it to yourself; in Padua / Men think that honesty is ostentatious, so / It is not of the fashion.

To those who knew her and to the greatly enlarged circle who were electrified by her last poems and sudden death, she had come to signify the specific honesties and risks of the poet’s condition.

I admire unvarnished honesty, which is scarce. And like everything else that's increasingly scarce, it behooves us to hoard our stash.

Have ye no wit, manners, nor honesty, but to gabble like tinkers at this time of night?

Word Forms

• honesties

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Use honesty when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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