What's the difference between frankness and honesty?

Frankness


Definition:

  • (n.) The quality of being frank; candor; openess; ingenuousness; fairness; liberality.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) To be fair to lads who find themselves just a bus ride from Auschwitz, a visit to the camp is now considered by many tourists to be a Holocaust "bucket list item", up there with the Anne Frank museum, where Justin Bieber recently delivered this compliment : "Anne was a great girl.
  • (2) The greatest stars who emerged from the early talent shows – Frank Sinatra, Gladys Knight, Tony Bennett – were artists with long careers.
  • (3) • Harriet Harman gives a frank interview about the olden days, in which she reveals a passionate affair with Arthur Scargill.
  • (4) The Ajax coach Frank de Boer has confirmed that Tottenham Hotspur have approached the Amsterdam club to test his interest in coaching the club.
  • (5) They’ve already collaborated with folks like DOOM, Ghostface Killah and Frank Ocean; I was lucky enough to hear a sneak peek of their incredible collaboration with Future Islands’ Sam Herring from their forthcoming album.
  • (6) Absolute has raised its profile with big-name signings such as Frank Skinner and bought live Premier League football rights for the first time for this season .
  • (7) Two term newborn infants born by frank breech delivery had posterior fossa hemorrhage diagnosed by CT scan within the first 72 hours of life and underwent successful surgical drainage of hematoma.
  • (8) After the formal PIRC inquiry was triggered by the lord advocate, Frank Mulholland, Bayoh’s family said police gave them five different accounts of what had happened before eventually being told late on Sunday afternoon how he died.
  • (9) To be frank, the police cannot cope with the extent of abuse on social media.
  • (10) Frankly, the pair had been at each other ever since the Frenchman had come on to the pitch.
  • (11) Moreover, S-phase prolongation was observed with the malignant changes, and the cell cycle time did not differ markedly among normal epithelium (22.8 hr), anaplastic epithelium (23.0 hr), and frank invasive carcinoma (26.1 hr).
  • (12) In any halfway-awake western nation, and, to be frank, in many reaches of British national life, this would be considered an amateurish absurdity, a guarantee of eventual failure.
  • (13) On the other hand, only limited feelings of frankness existed among the residents.
  • (14) Del Piero, who helped greatly increase the A-League’s profile during his two-year stay, was linked by the media to a managerial role at the club when Frank Farina lost his job in April 2014.
  • (15) Some Labour MPs, such as Frank Field and David Miliband, are keen on primaries.
  • (16) Activation of GV by monochromatic 450-nm radiation causes two specific DNA changes in human P3 cells in culture as shown by alkaline elution techniques: single-strand breaks (i.e., alkali-labile sites plus frank strand scissions) and DNA-to-protein covalent bond crosslinks.
  • (17) Five-year actuarial survival rates were 86.6% for frank, 98.8% for microinvasive and 98.8% for in situ carcinomas.
  • (18) "And let's be frank, we're not actually helping anyone by leaving the economic coast clear for others to provide the inward investment that often comes in from elsewhere and may represent tied aid or investment that won't help lift the poorest into employment," she said.
  • (19) But frankly we’re still so troubled by the past, it’s hard to put together our plans for the future,” he said.
  • (20) Regardless of who wins the high court case, appeals are possible and, frankly, likely."

Honesty


Definition:

  • (a.) Honor; honorableness; dignity; propriety; suitableness; decency.
  • (a.) The quality or state of being honest; probity; fairness and straightforwardness of conduct, speech, etc.; integrity; sincerity; truthfulness; freedom from fraud or guile.
  • (a.) Chastity; modesty.
  • (a.) Satin flower; the name of two cruciferous herbs having large flat pods, the round shining partitions of which are more beautiful than the blossom; -- called also lunary and moonwort. Lunaria biennis is common honesty; L. rediva is perennial honesty.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Trump and Hillary Clinton’s dismal honesty ratings, he says, show scrutiny is working.
  • (2) The authors conducted the course together and an atmosphere of intellectual honesty was developed through open discussion between faculty and students.
  • (3) Hunt’s comments were, in many senses, a restatement of traditional, economically liberal ideas on relationships between doing wage work and poverty relief, mirroring, for example, arguments of the 1834 poor law commissioners, which suggested wage supplements diminished the skills, honesty and diligence of the labourer, and the more recent claim of Iain Duncan Smith’s Centre for Social Justice that the earned pound was “superior” to that received in benefits.
  • (4) Also on Monday, rock musician and leading opponent of the cull Brian May issued a call for Paterson to resign, claiming he had failed to meet the public's expectation of "honesty and transparency".
  • (5) During a break between Detective Frost and Whitechapel, I decided to have a farewell glass of port in the honesty bar adjacent to the library.
  • (6) The battery assesses constructs related to honesty, violence, substance abuse, emotional stability and safety.
  • (7) (part 1 of 2) #mufc April 22, 2014 Manchester United (@ManUtd) BREAKING: The club would like to place on record its thanks for the hard work, honesty and integrity he brought to the role.
  • (8) The prayer appeals for “grace to debate the issues in this referendum with honesty and openness”.
  • (9) Hopefully these observations will help bring some honesty to the debate about alcohol, which kills up to 40,000 people a year in the UK and over 2.25 million worldwide in the latest 2011 WHO report .
  • (10) But for those Eurosceptics he needed to secure the party leadership, the realignment was an act of honesty and principle since the Tories oppose the Lisbon treaty and are utterly at odds with Europe's dominant Christian Democrats.
  • (11) An NHS trust's lack of honesty caused "unnecessary pain and further distress" to a family who had already suffered from the tragic and avoidable death of a baby boy, the health service ombudsman has said in the latest scathing verdict on the defensive culture within the health service.
  • (12) I am truly saddened by Dick’s decision but I respect him for his honesty and for doing what he feels is right for the club,” said Sunderland’s owner.
  • (13) The diplomats told Washington that certain themes in American movies seemed to appeal to the Saudi audience: heroic honesty in the face of corruption (George Clooney in Michael Clayton), supportive behaviour in relationships (an unspecified drama that was repeated during an Eid holiday featuring an American husband dealing with a drunk wife who smashed cars and crockery when she wasn't assaulting him and their child), and respect for the law over self-interest (Al Pacino and Robin Williams in Insomnia).
  • (14) It is necessary to face the problem with complete intellectual honesty and say that a fetus is a human being no matter what its age, but that voluntary abortion is also a social necessity.
  • (15) Envelopes stuffed with cash, it is claimed, were their reward for ensuring Blatter beat Lennart Johansson, the 'honesty' candidate, to become the soccer world's most powerful leader.
  • (16) Rather they are a plea for greater honesty in the evaluation process.
  • (17) Now that the book is published, does she regret such naked honesty?
  • (18) Today's verdict ‑ the striking-off of Wakefield and Prof John Walker-Smith, who was in charge of the department of paediatric gastroenterology at the Royal Free hospital in London, where the research took place and the acquittal of the-then junior consultant Simon Murch, who had doubts about the project ‑ was about ethics and honesty, not science.
  • (19) But the frailty of a three-minute song – the concise honesty of that expression – amazes me and turns me into a bucket of jealousy.
  • (20) The shadow chancellor said it "will come down to honesty versus dishonesty", as parties battle for votes ahead of the general election, which is expected to take place on 6 May.

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