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noun

1. The quality of being honest: honor, honorableness, incorruptibility, integrity, upstandingness. See honest/dishonest.
2. Moral or ethical strength: character, fiber, integrity, principle. See strong/weak.

Definition: truthfulness, candidness
Antonyms: artifice, cheating, deceit, deception, dishonesty, duplicity, falsehood, fraud, fraudulence, lying, treachery

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Quotes:

"Honest hearts produce honest actions." - Brigham Young

"Be prepared and be honest." - John Wooden

"Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man." - Richard Whately

"You can't make wrong work." - Gerald Waterhouse

"I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man." - George Washington

"Honesty shines like a light through your eyes." - Source Unknown

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For other uses, see Honesty (disambiguation).

Honesty refers to a facet of moral character and denotes positive, virtuous attributes such as integrity, truthfulness, and straightforwardness along with the absence of lying, cheating, or theft. "Honesty is the best policy." -- William Shakespeare, Mark Twain and Steve Landesberg. all said this saying. ^[1]

See also

• Integrity
• Lie
• Sincerity
• Truth

References

1. ^ "Oxford English Dictionary honesty". http://dictionary.oed.com/cgi/entry/50107669?single=1&query_type=word&queryword=honesty&first=1&max_to_show=10. Retrieved 2010-01-12. 

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