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honest
synonyms for honest
- authentic
- conscientious
- decent
- equitable
- fair
- forthright
- genuine
- honorable
- impartial
- proper
- reliable
- sincere
- straightforward
- true
- trustworthy
- virtuous
- aboveboard
- bona fide
- direct
- ethical
- fair and square
- frank
- high-minded
- ingenuous
- just
- law-abiding
- lay it on the line
- like it is
- no lie
- on the level
- on the up and up
- open
- outright
- plain
- real
- reputable
- scrupulous
- straight
- true blue
- trusty
- undisguised
- unfeigned
- upfront
- upright
- veracious
- what you see is what you get
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How to use honest in a sentence
Well, that’s the contract we have with each other, that people will be honest with you.
“People want to believe”: How Love Fraud builds an absorbing docuseries around a romantic con man | Alissa Wilkinson | September 4, 2020 | VoxReally, if I’m really honest with you, the main reason I didn’t want the job, the main reason I tried to quit, is because the pressure was super, super intense.
Tan France Goes Deep on Racism and When He Almost Quit ‘Queer Eye’ | Eugene Robinson | September 3, 2020 | OzyWhen I hear you say that, if I’m 100% honest, that sounds like talking points.
New personalities entering the crypto world—from Paul Tudor Jones to William Shatner to Olympian Christie Rampone—are helping initiate an honest conversation about whether our financial systems are helping or hurting us all.
Because it’s time for the brands to build honest and transparent relationships with consumers, which is going to lead to stronger trust in advertising.
Five great display and video advertising tactics to increase relevance and revenue in a cookie-less world | Anastasia-Yvoni Spiliopoulou | August 24, 2020 | Search Engine WatchWhat matters is being honest, humble, and a faithful and loyal friend, father and member of your community.
Abramoff’s Advice for Virginia’s New Jailhouse Guv | Tim Mak, Jackie Kucinich | January 7, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTThe Times of Israel even applauded Netanyahu for finally being honest about his views on the issue of Palestine.
In the Middle East, the Two-State Solution Is Dead | Dean Obeidallah | January 2, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTTo be honest, I think a lot of good essay writing comes out of that.
Daphne Merkin on Lena Dunham, Book Criticism, and Self-Examination | Mindy Farabee | December 26, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThere is a brutally honest section of the book about how you fell out of love with your wife, and essentially chose soccer.
So I’m sitting with my daughter and all of her friends—who are 13—and she says ‘Dad, can I be honest with you?
With childlike confidence he follows the advice of some more or less honest dealer.
The Pit Town Coronet, Volume I (of 3) | Charles James WillsSometimes necessity makes an honest man a knave: and a rich man a honest man, because he has no occasion to be a knave.
They will reach you by the hands of Mr. Mackenzie, a worldly-minded Scotch merchant, but honest as to earthly things.
The Pit Town Coronet, Volume I (of 3) | Charles James WillsIf they are still Moderns and alive, I defy you to bury them if you are discussing living questions in a full and honest way.
The Salvaging Of Civilisation | H. G. (Herbert George) WellsA world that has known five years of fighting has lost its taste for the honest drudgery of work.
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice | Stephen Leacock
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