(n.) Whiteness; brightness; (as applied to moral conditions) usullied purity; innocence.
(n.) A disposition to treat subjects with fairness; freedom from prejudice or disguise; frankness; sincerity.
Example Sentences:
(1) As was stated earlier in this article, a most useful beacon to guide the physician in this dimly lit path is the notion that "congruence not candor" direct the disclosure.
(2) She added: “I think there are multiple ways to have your voice heard.” She told King about her conversations with her father, saying: “Where I disagree with my father, he knows it and I express myself with total candor.
(3) Factor analysis revealed five factors: outcome expectations; candor; interest in treating cancer; psychosocial concerns: role of the physician; and psychosocial concerns: importance to the patient.
(4) The author shares a personal glimpse of Sir Stewart's wit, candor, and gallantry, observed during her more than 15-year relationship with him as a glaucoma patient.
(5) Though medicine does pursue certain Cartesian goals for knowledge, such as knowledge of the patient that does not rely upon his candor, it ultimately espouses neither a Cartesian theory of knowledge nor a Cartesian theory of the body.
(6) Candor and awareness of the importance of the public belief in physician loyalty are seen as necessary in preventing these changes from becoming destructive of the physician-patient relationship.
(7) The new sexual candor has positively affected public understanding and comprehensive research, and applies to the discussion of all STDs.
(8) In politics or, at least, in campaign rhetoric we are seeing fewer promises and more candor; mor emphasis on truthfulness, personal integrity, and character and fewer offers to solve difficult problems.
(9) I suppose there's some commendable candor in hiring Obama's two most recognizably loyal aides in less than two weeks: any lingering doubt about its primary purpose as a network is dispelled, so that, I suppose, is good on some level (just as Fox's heavy reliance on long-time GOP operative Karl Rove had the same clarifying effect).
(10) His personal qualities, such as candor, ingenuity and intellectual honesty are recalled by his successor in the Howe Laboratory.
(11) Comey’s lack of candor in a classified setting, intended to brief members on the intelligence agencies’ assessment that Russia interfered in the election to benefit Trump, follows a public rebuff this week to senators seeking clarification.
(12) But his candor about these unorthodox ways, which borders on bravura, may inoculate him from further scrutiny.
(13) And yet since Trump entered the race, he has sucked up every ounce of media oxygen with his celebrity and an outlandish candor that rather than alienating supporters only endears him to them further.
(14) With a level of candor seen rarely in politics, he recalled a breakdown of his emotions during a recent visit to a Colorado military base when a well-wisher yelled out the name of his son and referenced his decorated military service in Iraq.
(15) He contends that candor and awareness of the importance of the public belief in physician loyalty are necessary to prevent social pressures from destroying the physician patient relationship.
(16) Approximately 75% of both teens and parents favored the increasing candor in discussing sex, abortion, and pregnancy.
(17) In order to achieve maximum participation and candor of study respondents, the importance and purposes of the study and the safeguards for protecting the respondents' privacy and minimizing risks must be clearly explained.
(18) Public frustration with his perceived lack of candor on the involvement of his staff and close associates in the closure of access lanes to the George Washington bridge in September 2013, meanwhile, produced a double-digit slide in his approval rating.
(19) His icy demeanor and lack of emotional candor were off-putting enough as it is, but this is also a man that was accused of raping a 19-year-old.
(20) I have never had a problem speaking truth to power, and I firmly believe that those in power deserve full candor and my honest assessment and recommendations,” Kelly said.
Probity
Definition:
(n.) Tried virtue or integrity; approved moral excellence; honesty; rectitude; uprightness.
Example Sentences:
(1) The alleged conduct was not conduct that could adversely affect the probity of the exercise of an official function by a public official.
(2) Members of the board of the Food Standards Agency (FSA) have been ordered to declare any contact they have with its former chief executivefor two years following Tim Smith's controversial move to Tesco to ensure "proper governance and probity".
(3) The Biological Stain Commission-sponsored workshop was convened to address the following issues: a manufacturers' testing program for probity of commercial antibodies, development of a manual for performance criteria and quality control assurance procedures, standardization of package inserts, standardization of information provided in the Materials and Methods sections of publications, establishment of a reagent and procedure clearing house, study of the effects of different fixation regimes on tissue antigens, and investigation of the environmental conditions needed for antigen-antibody interaction.
(4) Douglas has always advocated new politics, probity, transparency – this is his public image.
(5) We will establish partnerships between different countries’ institutions and professions to help build a shared culture of honesty and probity.
(6) In the circumstances, you do have to marvel at that mulishly self-regarding "for any offence caused" – the classic non-apology apology typically proffered by those with a belief in their own absolute probity, which is as unshakeable as it is misplaced.
(7) This British bank has generally enjoyed a high reputation for probity (as these places go) until yesterday, when some New York regulator apparently denounced Standard as a 'rogue institution.'
(8) She has had her problems with the Tories, in particular over Boris Johnson's attempted appointment of former London Evening Standard editor Veronica Wadley to the chair of Arts Council London (a letter of Forgan's to Bradshaw, questioning the probity of the recruitment process, was leaked last year; there have been Tory mutterings that Forgan is too bound up with the Labour establishment).
(9) Looking into the Eds’ eyes, wavering voters do not spy the cutting zeal that reassures them of fiscal probity; but nor do they offer a genuine alternative to those fed up of Osborne’s botch job.
(10) If a leader can convince voters they will not back-slide in this way, then – with probity, empathy and practical balms for a country gripped by a sustained squeeze on living standards – they might still cut through.
(11) And, while the emphasis has mostly been on the probity of Mann's hockey stick, most researchers I have spoken to regard the M&M study as far more deeply flawed.
(12) "He had a complete loss of confidence when he described Jeffrey Archer as a man of probity and integrity – only for us to watch him go to jail.
(13) • Focus on technical skills as well as probity of approved persons.
(14) One energy industry analyst said the prospect of a $1bn government loan for Adani’s railway showed a lack of financier interest and raised probity questions, given public money would go to a private entity controlled by the Adani family through offshore tax havens.
(15) Manipulating the system, or indeed any unscrupulous behaviour, would have been unthinkable, Zombanakis says, because the system was based not only on the probity of men in bowler hats and pinstripe suits but on something more important still: an unwritten code of conduct inspired entirely by fair play.
(16) But I and my family - my father and my two uncles, although they've all gone now - have had an enduring reputation for probity, integrity and honesty," he added.
(17) To spread best practice, ensure probity and the equitable use of public funds, and to ensure transparency and accountability locally, we need a devolved schools system.
(18) If the party did much more of what it says on the tin, the doubts about honesty, trust and appeal would dissolve as its reputation would be enhanced by probity and authenticity.
(19) Ensuring the probity of the foreign exchange rates is “incredibly important” for the FX market and “fundamentally important” for the credibility of the Bank of England itself , Carney added.
(20) Bailey said the initiative to seek written promises of probity from editorial executives did not extend to former staff such as Morgan.