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How to use honesty in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun

Honesty means the act, quality, or condition of being honest. Example: “Joe combines the intelligence of a rock with the honesty of a politician.”

Examples of honesty by meaning

nounThe act, quality, or condition of being honest.

  • 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.1965, George Steiner, “Dying is an Art”, in Language and Silence: Essays on Language, Literature and the Inhuman, New York: Atheneum...
  • I admire unvarnished honesty, which is scarce.2025 February 2, Charles Hugh Smith, Begging Bowl '25: I'm Looking for Two Readers Willing to Help Me Buy a New Thrift-Store Shirt

nounAny of various crucifers in the genus Lunaria, several of which are grown as ornamentals, particularly annual honesty...

  • Commonly used greenery were tansy, honesty, garlic, St.1940, Rosetta E. Clarkson, Green Enchantments: The Magic Spell of Gardens, The Macmillan Company, page 271

More sentences with honesty

  • Joe combines the intelligence of a rock with the honesty of a politician.From the entry combine
  • He regards honesty as a duty, but was regarded himself as (being) rather dangerous by the police.From the entry regard
  • Honesty is the true measure of a man.From the entry measure
  • I didn't get a girlfriend, though in all honesty, I'm still undecided whether I really want to have one.From the entry in all honesty
  • In all honesty, it has got to be any ship that includes godzilla.2024 November 29, @whyevill, X (post), archived from the original on 30 Apr 2026. From the entry Mothzilla
  • Without an audience in mind, I was able to write with fierce honesty.2022 October 11, Stephanie Eisler Vance, “When Facebook Actually Broke My Brain”, in The New York Times. From the entry semicurious
  • The teaching of honesty is taught to us by Sabe or sometimes the raven.2020, Centennial College, “Seven Grandfather Teachings”, in Our Stories, archived from the original on 21 Jan 2020. From the entry sabe
  • Our honesty is as important as an excellent answer and reveals that we are still learners.2014, Bill Peel, Walt Larimore, Workplace Grace: Becoming a Spiritual Influence at Work, 2nd edition, Longview, TX: LeTourneau Press…. From the entry wikipedia
  • Seeks women 5’4” or shorter, 7-8 or smaller, race, age unimportant, SOH, honesty is.1993 December 3, “Rhode Island Personals”, in The Boston Phoenix, volume 22, number 49, Boston, Mass.: The Phoenix Media Communications…. From the entry DTE
  • Interests must include self sufficiency, honesty, value of quality of life over monetary gain.1987 August 22, “Thoreau Type GWM Mid Age (personal advertisementR”, in Gay Community News, volume 15, number 6, page 13. From the entry relocatable
  • A desperate honesty that throbs through his confession does not absolve him from sins of diabolical cunning.1955, John Ray, Jr. [pseudonym; Vladimir Nabokov], “Foreword”, in Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: G[eorge]…. From the entry tendresse
  • For these coverages it is necessary to check for honesty or undesirable reputation of any kind.1946, The American Archivist, volumes 9-10, page 341. From the entry daily
  • I think his honesty and his willingness will outweigh his lack of gumption.1936 June 30, Margaret Mitchell, chapter XXXVIII, in Gone with the Wind, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, published June 1944…. From the entry gumption
  • Let the two great bodies join hands and start a propagandum for honesty and for self respect.1912 December, Wilhelm Bodemann, “Applied Cooperation”, in The Journal of the American Pharmaceutical Association, volume I, number 12…. From the entry propagandum
  • That’s it,” I said in all honesty.2019, Diamond Johnson, Down With the King of the South 4, Leo Sullivan, →ISBN. From the entry hot girl summer
  • He had an innate honesty and humility, a work ethic that elevated him above most others in England.2018 May 4, Tom English, “Steven Gerrard: A 'seriously clever or recklessly stupid' Rangers appointment”, in BBC Sport. From the entry like hell
  • Box stalls filled with fresh produce, known as "hedge veg", can be found on hedgerows, with an honesty jar alongside.2017 September 15, Kari Herbert, “Guernsey goes gastro: a food adventure in the Channel Islands”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The…. From the entry honesty jar
  • Perhaps he might hire me for my refreshing honesty?2013, Iris Smyles, Iris Has Free Time, Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint, →ISBN, page 9. From the entry jazz hands
  • Throughout my training I witnessed several doctors run out of town because their honesty and outspokenness began to poke the bear.2012, Marty Makary, Unaccountable, Bloomsbury Publishing USA, →ISBN, page 17. From the entry poke the bear
  • Eventually he'll be desysopped for good, and that will be a wonderful day for reason and honesty on the Internet.2011 August 5, Ding Dong [username], “Re: All My Details”, in uk.legal (Usenet). From the entry desysop
  • If we let them deal thus with our Capo—why, then there is neither honesty, rathood nor good fellowship in us.2004, Eric Flint, Dave Freer, The Rats, the Bats and the Ugly, →ISBN. From the entry rathood
  • With commendable honesty, he also acknowledges the amount of (unfair, obviously) criticism he has received for being greedy for media attention.2002 September 19, “Short Cuts”, in London Review of Books, volume 24, number 18, Thomas Jones. From the entry cyborg
  • In India, men and women of talent, ability, honesty and integrity keep their distance from the politics of today.1995, Rishi Ranjan Chakrabarty, While India is burning, page 38. From the entry mediocrat
  • And however full of death and darkness their accounts had been, they'd at least essayed a certain personal honesty.1986, Samuel R. Delany, Joseph Beam, “The Possibility of Possibilities”, in Joseph Beam, editor, In The Life: A Black Gay Anthology, page…. From the entry essay
  • To be sure, the fundamental tenets of honesty remain immutable; but business practices change—voluntarily or by legal compulsion.1943, Your Investments - Volume 4. From the entry epithetize
  • Government standards of decency and honesty were quite low, and decision-makers were tainted with self-interest and corruption at the very highest level.2023 March 8, Howard Johnston, “Was Marples the real railway wrecker?”, in RAIL, number 978, page 52. From the entry self-interest
  • The ground floor is made up of common rooms including Spectre, an honesty bar with silver gilded walls and tiles of salvaged golden onyx.2023 April 19, Gisela Williams, “A Mexican Boutique With Penguin Saltshakers and Nopal Coin Purses”, in T: The New York Times Style…. From the entry honesty bar
  • And thank you for your honesty.2009, lb briggs, “In”, in It’s Alright: A Truckface Anthology, volume 2, Tacoma, Wash.: Mend My Dress Press, published 2013, →ISBN, issue…. From the entry unredden
  • "Your honesty & forthrightness in all you do and say is greatly appreciated & welcomed in this age of phonyness & half-truths.2007, Laura Shapiro, Julia Child. From the entry phonyness
  • Honesty has already become interchangeable with secrecy, though; without a pause Erifile sends her innamorato permission to visit her that very night—disguised as a woman.1996, Jackson I. Cope, “Siena: Piccolomini’s Dialogo and the Rozzi Rusticali”, in Secret Sharers in Italian Comedy: From Machiavelli to…. From the entry innamorato
  • Sharon remembers the WAFFs, the romance, the cuddling, the tender bits, the honesty and openness between our heroes and gives the episode an A+.1996 March 18, Colonel X, “Re: Camping With Clark”, in alt.tv.lois-n-clark (Usenet). From the entry waff
  • There is thirst for moral values, like honesty, truthfulness, sympathy, deceitlessness, dependability, trust worthiness, sincerity, perserance, selfcontrol, cooperativeness, trust or faith and the like.1992, Uday Shanker, Internal Unity Of All Religions, page 7. From the entry deceitlessness
  • She proceeded to launch into this War and Peace–length speech about honesty and community and respect and all those other topics that seriously get on my nerves.2005, Lauren Mechling, Laura Moser, The Rise and Fall of a 10th Grade Social Climber, Random House Australia. From the entry War and Peace
  • This, a variant of ‘truth’, encompasses in one word the idea of faithfulness, honesty, openness, humility and love – all of which are necessary to marriage.1979 May, David Lyon, “Marx and the meaning of man: David Lyon considers Karl Marx’s understanding of humanity”, in John Capon, editor…. From the entry trothful
  • In their ethopoeias of the ideal lover, de la Torre, Ribera, and Luduefia emphasize, as we have seen, eloquence, good physical proportions, youth, elegance, discretion and honesty.1976, E. Michael Gerli, Alfonso Martínez de Toledo, →ISBN, page 115. From the entry ethopoeia
  • No; what all attestators are really trying to state is, that Lincoln is abnormally honest; his honesty is so overexcessive that he legally “Jeans over backward.”1933, Leon Pierce Clark, Lincoln: A Psycho-Biography, Charles Scribner's Sons, page 176. From the entry overexcessive
  • Any Senator who can not stand up and have the yardstick of common decency and common honesty applied to him here ought not to be in the Senate.1924, United States. Congress, Congressional Record, page 3313. From the entry dopestick

Meaning of honesty

  1. noun The act, quality, or condition of being honest.
  2. noun Honor; decency, propriety.
  3. noun Chastity.

Full definition of honesty

Questions about honesty in a sentence

How do you use honesty in a sentence?
Honesty is used as a noun. For example: “Joe combines the intelligence of a rock with the honesty of a politician.”
What is a short sentence with honesty?
“And thank you for your honesty.”
What does honesty mean?
Honesty means the act, quality, or condition of being honest.

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