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aboveboard

adverb as in candidly

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Shy’s employment history is largely aboveboard, but he’s done things for money that by his own admission are inexcusably vile.

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Mr. Gertler has said that all his investments in Congo were aboveboard.

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EcoHealth’s relationship with Chinese research institutions was open and aboveboard, and its funnelling U.S. grants to those institutions explicitly approved by the NIH and HHS.

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They arrived in Quebec with their grandmother when Antigone was only three, having lost both their parents; the two brothers now provide for their meager household — through aboveboard as well as illicit means involving gangs.

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At least this money grab is aboveboard and the exploitation is somewhat mutual.

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