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Honesty vs. Honest

By Muazma Batool — Published on May 21, 2023

Difference Between Honesty and Honest

Honesty

The quality or condition of being honest; integrity.

Honest

Marked by or displaying integrity; upright
an honest lawyer.

Honesty

Truthfulness; sincerity
in all honesty.

Honest

Not deceptive or fraudulent; genuine
honest weight.

Honesty

(Archaic) Chastity.

Honest

Equitable; fair
honest wages for an honest day's work.

Honesty

(Botany) A Eurasian plant (Lunaria annua) in the mustard family, cultivated for its fragrant purplish flowers and round, flat, papery, translucent, silver-white seedpods. Also called money plant, satin flower.

Honest

Characterized by truth; not false
honest reporting.

Honesty

The act, quality, or condition of being honest.
academic / artistic / emotional / intellectual honesty
brutal / devastating / searing honesty

Honest

Sincere; frank
an honest critique.

Honesty

Honor; decency, propriety.

Honest

Of good repute; respectable.

Honesty

Chastity.

Honest

Without affectation; plain
honest folk.

Honesty

(countable) Any of various crucifers in the genus Lunaria, several of which are grown as ornamentals, particularly Lunaria annua.

Honest

Virtuous; chaste.

Honesty

Honor; honorableness; dignity; propriety; suitableness; decency.
She derives her honesty and achieves her goodness.

Honest

(of a person or institution) Scrupulous with regard to telling the truth; not given to swindling, lying, or fraud; upright.
We’re the most honest people you will ever come across.

Honesty

The quality or state of being honest; probity; fairness and straightforwardness of conduct, speech, etc.; integrity; sincerity; truthfulness; freedom from fraud or guile.
That we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty.

Honest

(of a statement) True, especially as far as is known by the person making the statement; fair; unbiased.
an honest account of events
honest reporting

Honesty

Chastity; modesty.
To lay . . . siege to the honesty of this Ford's wife.

Honest

In good faith; without malice.
an honest mistake

Honesty

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; Lunaria rediva is perennial honesty.

Honest

(of a measurement device) Accurate.
an honest scale

Honesty

the quality of being honest

Honest

Authentic; full.
an honest day’s work

Honesty

southeastern European plant cultivated for its fragrant purplish flowers and round flat papery silver-white seedpods that are used for indoor decoration

Honest

Earned or acquired in a fair manner.
an honest dollar

Honest

Open; frank.
an honest countenance

Honest

(obsolete) Decent; honourable; suitable; becoming.

Honest

(obsolete) Chaste; faithful; virtuous.

Honest

(obsolete) To adorn or grace; to honour; to make becoming, appropriate, or honourable.

Honest

(colloquial) Honestly; really.
It wasn’t my fault, honest.

Honest

Decent; honorable; suitable; becoming.
Belong what honest clothes you send forth to bleaching!

Honest

Characterized by integrity or fairness and straightforwardness 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.
An honest man's the noblest work of God.
An honest physician leaves his patient when he can contribute no farther to his health.
Look ye out among you seven men of honest report.
Provide things honest in the sight of all men.

Honest

Open; frank; as, an honest countenance.

Honest

Chaste; faithful; virtuous.
Wives may be merry, and yet honest too.

Honest

To adorn; to grace; to honor; to make becoming, appropriate, or honorable.

Honest

not disposed to cheat or defraud; not deceptive or fraudulent;
honest lawyers
honest reporting
an honest wage
honest weight

Honest

without dissimulation; frank;
my honest opinion

Honest

worthy of being depended on;
a dependable worker
an honest working stiff
a reliable source of information
he was true to his word
I would be true for there are those who trust me

Honest

free from guile;
his answer was simple and honest

Honest

without pretensions;
worked at an honest trade
good honest food

Honest

habitually speaking the truth;
an honest man
a veracious witness

Honest

marked by truth;
gave honest answers

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