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| Main Entry: | honesty |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | truthfulness, candidness |
| Synonyms: | candor, confidence, conscientiousness, equity, fairness, faithfulness, fidelity, frankness, goodness, honor, integrity, loyalty, morality, principle, probity, rectitude, responsibility, right, self-respect, sincerity, soundness, uprightness, veracity, virtue, bluntness, evenhandedness, genuineness, impeccability, incorruptibility, justness, openness, outspokenness, plainness, reputability, scrupulousness, straightforwardness, straightness, trustiness, trustworthiness |
| Antonyms: | artifice, cheating, deceit, deception, dishonesty, duplicity, falsehood, fraud, lying, treachery, fraudulence |
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| Main Entry: | honesty |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Adjectives: |
above all praise, admirable, angelic, as good as one's word, beyond all praise, candid, chivalrous, coeliginous, commendable, conscientious, constant, constant as the Northern Star, correct, creditable, desertful, deserving, duteous, dutiful, equitable, even-handed, excellent, exemplary, fair, fair and above board, faithful, frank, gentlemanlike, godlike, good, heaven-born, high-minded, high-principled, high-spirited, honest, honest as daylight, honorable, impartial, impravable, incorruptible, innocent, inviolable, inviolate, jealous of honor, just, laudable, loyal, matchless, meritorious, moral, nice, noble, open and above board, open-hearted, overscrupulous, peerless, praiseworthy, punctilious, punctual, pure, religious, reputable, respectable, right, righteous, right-minded, saintlike, saintly, scrupulous, seraphic, square, stainless, staunch, sterling, straightforward, strict, supramundane, tender-conscienced, to be depended upon, true, true as the needle to the north, true to one's colors, true to the core, true-blue, true-hearted, trustworthy, trusty, unbetrayed, unbought, unbribed, unbroken, uncorrupt, uncorrupted, undebauched, undefiled, undepraved, unperjured, unstained, unsullied, untainted, untarnished, unviolated, unworldly, upright, veracious, virtuous, well-intentioned, worthy
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| Main Entry: | candor |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | complete honesty |
| Synonyms: | artlessness, fairness, frankness, honesty, impartiality, naiveté, probity, simplicity, sincerity, truthfulness, uprightness, veracity, directness, forthrightness, glasnost, guilelessness, ingenuousness, openness, outspokenness, straightforwardness, unequivocalness |
| Antonyms: | artifice, deception, falsehood, guile, lying |
| Main Entry: | constancy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fixedness |
| Synonyms: | adherence, allegiance, ardor, attachment, certainty, decision, determination, devotion, doggedness, eagerness, earnestness, endurance, faith, fealty, fidelity, firmness, honesty, honor, integrity, love, loyalty, permanence, perseverance, principle, regularity, resolution, stability, surety, tenacity, truthfulness, uniformity, zeal, abidingness, dependability, devotedness, staunchness, steadfastness, steadiness, trustiness, trustworthiness, unchangeableness, unfailingness |
| Antonyms: | change, fluctuation, instability, irregularity, changeableness, inconstancy, unsteadiness |
| Main Entry: | decency |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | respectable behavior |
| Synonyms: | appropriateness, civility, correctness, courtesy, decorum, dignity, etiquette, fitness, formality, good manners, honesty, modesty, propriety, respectability, righteousness, virtue, ceremoniousness, conventionality, fittingness, good form, seemliness |
| Antonyms: | impropriety, indecency, obscenity, immodesty, immorality, obsceneness |
| Main Entry: | ethics/ethic |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | moral philosophy, values |
| Synonyms: | belief, conduct, conscience, convention, decency, goodness, honesty, honor, ideal, imperative, integrity, moral code, morality, mores, nature, practice, rules of conduct, standard, conventionalities, criteria, ethos, natural law, principles, right and wrong, standards, the Golden Rule |
| Antonyms: | corruption, immorality |
| Main Entry: | fairness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | justice |
| Synonyms: | candor, charity, civility, consideration, courtesy, decency, decorum, due, duty, equity, fair shake*, good faith, goodness, honesty, honor, humanity, impartiality, integrity, moderation, propriety, right, righteousness, suitability, tolerance, truth, uprightness, veracity, charitableness, disinterestedness, equitableness, exactitude, fair-mindedness, give and take, justness, legitimacy, open-mindedness, rationality, reasonableness, rightfulness, rightness, seemliness, square deal |
| Antonyms: | inequity, injustice, partiality, wrong, unfairness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | goodness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | decency, excellence |
| Synonyms: | advantage, benefit, benevolence, friendliness, generosity, good will, grace, honesty, honor, integrity, kindheartedness, kindness, mercy, merit, morality, nourishment, probity, quality, rectitude, righteousness, superiority, uprightness, value, virtue, worth, beneficence, ethicality, graciousness, humaneness, kindliness, obligingness, rightness, wholesomeness |
| Antonyms: | evil, indecency, meanness, wickedness |
| Main Entry: | loyalty |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | faithfulness, dependability |
| Synonyms: | adherence, allegiance, ardor, attachment, bond, conscientiousness, constancy, devotion, duty, earnestness, faith, fealty, fidelity, homage, honesty, honor, integrity, obedience, patriotism, probity, reliability, resolution, sincerity, submission, support, tie, troth, truth, truthfulness, uprightness, zeal, devotedness, incorruptibility, inviolability, scrupulousness, single-mindedness, singleness, staunchness, steadfastness, subjection, trueheartedness, trueness, trustiness, trustworthiness |
| Antonyms: | disloyalty, unfaithfulness, undependability |
| Main Entry: | sportsmanship |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | integrity |
| Synonyms: | fairness, goodness, honesty, honor, principle, righteousness, sincerity, virtue, forthrightness, gamesmanship, honorableness |
| Main Entry: | veracity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | truth |
| Synonyms: | accuracy, actuality, candor, correctness, credibility, exactness, fact, fairness, fidelity, frankness, gospel*, honesty, honor, impartiality, integrity, precision, probity, real McCoy*, reality, rectitude, sincerity, truism, truthfulness, uprightness, verisimilitude, verity, word*, authenticity, exactitude, genuineness, honest-to-god truth, like it is, openness, rightness, straight stuff, trueness, trustworthiness |
| Antonyms: | falsehood, falsity |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | conscientiousness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | scrupulousness |
| Synonyms: | faithfulness, honesty, honor, uprightness, veracity, dutifulness, exactitude, incorruptibility, mindfulness, pains, punctiliousness, steadfastness |
| Antonyms: | indifference, negligence, nonchalance |
| Main Entry: | frankness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | openness |
| Synonyms: | candor, honesty, sincerity, ingenuousness |
| Main Entry: | ethics |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | morality |
| Synonyms: | belief, conduct, conscience, convention, decency, goodness, honesty, honor, ideal, imperative, integrity, moral code, morality, mores, nature, practice, standard, value, conventionalities, criteria, ethic, ethos, natural law, principles, standards |
| Notes: | morality is beliefs regarding appropriate behavior, while ethics is the formal study of morality |
| Main Entry: | moral fiber |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | good character |
| Synonyms: | fortitude, honesty, morality, good conscience, incorruptibility, moral courage, moral excellence, moral rectitude, moral virtue, scruples, strongmindedness |
| Main Entry: | straight and narrow |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | right conduct |
| Synonyms: | honesty, integrity, morality, righteousness, moral integrity, proper conduct |
| Main Entry: | reliability |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dependability |
| Synonyms: | accuracy, constancy, faithfulness, fidelity, honesty, loyalty, safety, security, soundness, authenticity, steadfastness, trustworthiness |
| Main Entry: | respectability |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | integrity |
| Synonyms: | decency, honesty, propriety, virtue, honorableness, reputability |
| Main Entry: | equity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | impartiality |
| Synonyms: | fairness, honesty, integrity, justice, piece, rectitude, righteousness, uprightness, disinterestedness, equitableness, even-handedness, fair play, fair-mindedness, justness, nonpartisanship, reasonableness, square deal |
| Antonyms: | bias, inequity, partiality, unfairness, unjustness |
| Main Entry: | integrity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | honor, uprightness |
| Synonyms: | candor, goodness, honesty, principle, probity, purity, rectitude, righteousness, sincerity, virtue, forthrightness, honestness, honorableness, incorruptibility, incorruption, straightforwardness |
| Antonyms: | corruption, disgrace, dishonesty, dishonor |
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