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See definition of straightness on Dictionary.com
  • as inhonesty
  • as inincorruptibility
  • as inupstandingness

synonyms for straightness

  • candor
  • confidence
  • fairness
  • faithfulness
  • frankness
  • honor
  • integrity
  • loyalty
  • morality
  • probity
  • rectitude
  • responsibility
  • self-respect
  • sincerity
  • trustworthiness
  • veracity
  • virtue
  • bluntness
  • conscientiousness
  • equity
  • fidelity
  • genuineness
  • goodness
  • impeccability
  • incorruptibility
  • justness
  • openness
  • outspokenness
  • plainness
  • principle
  • reputability
  • right
  • scrupulousness
  • soundness
  • straightforwardness
  • trustiness
  • uprightness
  • evenhandedness

antonyms for straightness

MOST RELEVANT
  • corruption
  • disgrace
  • dishonesty
  • dishonor
  • disloyalty
  • distrust
  • evil
  • falsehood
  • immorality
  • unfairness
  • unjustness
  • artifice
  • cheating
  • deceit
  • deception
  • duplicity
  • fraud
  • fraudulence
  • lying
  • treachery
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    How to use straightness in a sentence

    The care shown in rearing insures a perfect straightness of stem, and an equable diameter of about an inch or an inch and a half.
    TOBACCO; ITS HISTORY, VARIETIES, CULTURE, MANUFACTURE AND COMMERCEE. R. BILLINGS.
    But the grey in this case was not so pure, nor were the straightness and the slenderness so maidenly.
    THE TRAGIC MUSEHENRY JAMES
    Under this imputation on her straightness Miriam flinched but for an instant.
    THE TRAGIC MUSEHENRY JAMES
    My attention was arrested by the apparent straightness of the range, and the uniform height of the ridge.
    LETTERS FROM PALESTINEJ. D. PAXTON
    Her nose was of patrician straightness, and the curves of her mouth came from generations of proud ancestors.
    RICHARD CARVEL, COMPLETEWINSTON CHURCHILL
    But if other people positively insisted that he should deviate from straightness, very well; that was their lookout.
    GRAY YOUTHOLIVER ONIONS
    Pippin went to the pile and selected a stick with great care, squinting along it to observe the straightness of the grain.
    PIPPIN; A WANDERING FLAMELAURA E. RICHARDS
    Rectus, rek′tus, n. a muscle so called from the straightness of its course:—pl.
    CHAMBERS'S TWENTIETH CENTURY DICTIONARY (PART 3 OF 4: N-R)VARIOUS
    As she had done before, she remarked upon the massiveness of the walls and the straightness of the window openings.
    UP THE FORKED RIVEREDWARD SYLVESTER ELLIS
    For their proverbial straightness, however, the Osages are perhaps more famous than any of the other prairie Indians.
    EARLY WESTERN TRAVELS 1748-1846, VOLUME XXVARIOUS
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