(a.) Characterized by integrity or fairness and straight/forwardness in conduct, thought, speech, etc.; upright; just; equitable; trustworthy; truthful; sincere; free from fraud, guile, or duplicity; not false; -- said of persons and acts, and of things to which a moral quality is imputed; as, an honest judge or merchant; an honest statement; an honest bargain; an honest business; an honest book; an honest confession.
(a.) Open; frank; as, an honest countenance.
(a.) Chaste; faithful; virtuous.
(a.) To adorn; to grace; to honor; to make becoming, appropriate, or honorable.
Example Sentences:
(1) We have not yet been honest about the implications, and some damaging myths have arisen.
(2) Does anybody honestly believe the vast majority of migrants don’t want that too?
(3) We didn’t take anyone’s votes for granted and we have run a very strong positive campaign.” Asked if she expected Ukip to run have Labour so close, she said: “To be honest with you I have been through more or less every scenario.
(4) The military is not being honest about the number of men on strike: most of us are refusing to eat.
(5) The World Humanitarian Summit in May 2016 may be the most timely opportunity to make an honest appraisal of the effectiveness of the current system to deal with the sector’s “ new normal ” of finite resources and unlimited challenges.
(6) How, in the name of all that is decent and honest in this world did we let this happen?
(7) We are prepared to be honest with people and say that we will all need to chip in a little more.” The party’s health spokesman, Norman Lamb, said: “The NHS was once the envy of the world and this pledge is the first step in restoring it to where it should be.
(8) The Sun editor also said his newspaper was wrong to use the word "tran" in a headline to describe a transexual, saying that he felt that "I don't know this is our greatest moment, to be honest".
(9) I have always struggled with the quality of my own work but despite my misgivings about the photos I am taking I can't honestly say they would have been any better two years ago.
(10) She described Luke as being “open, honest and assertive” during the interview.
(11) The physician embarking on the long-term management of burned children must have a very strong and honest relationship with the patient and family or guardians and must use all available resources, including physical and occupational therapists, social workers, and others, over the course of the effort.
(12) First, they were asked to complete them honestly, reporting accurately on their behaviour patterns.
(13) Including these incentive or responsibility payments in fixed pay is also more honest in accounting terms.
(14) Right now I think the discussion is not honest and practical, it is hysterical and political.” In contrast to the IOC, which did not contact McLaren, he said the International Paralympic Committee had been in close touch as it decides on whether to ban the Russian team.
(15) "I'm just trying to be objective and honest," he says.
(16) Camila Batmanghelidjh is one of the most kind-hearted, honest and reliable people I know, and would do anything not only for her young people but for young people in general.
(17) Another – the problem they failed to solve at the last election – is how you write an honest manifesto of your liberalism when you know and the voters know that, if you do get to see power again, it will be shared with someone else.
(18) While this is something that gives substance to the familiar cry of “Never again,” it will be up to the countries in the western Balkans, and in particular Bosnia and Herzegovina, to engage in an honest reckoning with the past, rather than narratives based on chauvinism or denial.
(19) I honestly think so many Americans are scrambling so fast just to keep up that: a) they're not aware of what they're missing; b) they don't have time to agitate."
(20) Green party leader Natalie Bennett came unstuck by trying to be honest | Letters: Sara Parkin, Brian Wilson and Tim Daniel Read more Having announced the idea of a universal £72-a-week income in January, the party has struggled to say how it would raise the billions of pounds needed to implement the policy and faced questions about whether it would harm the poorest people.
Unbiased
Definition:
(a.) Free from bias or prejudice; unprejudiced; impartial.
Example Sentences:
(1) This may have significant consequences for people’s health.” However, Prof Peter Weissberg, medical director of the British Heart Foundation, which funded the work, said medical journals could no longer be relied on to be unbiased.
(2) We show that it does apply under conditions of high ionic strength (0.3 M KCl), and under these conditions time courses may be analyzed to yield unbiased estimates of the initiation (Vi) and chain elongation (Vp) rates.
(3) Thus obtained body shape variables were used in discriminant analysis in order to obtain unbiased classification probabilities of individuals having the MBS or being normal.
(4) The novel sampling scheme used in this study is unbiased and was designed so that only a small amount of neocortical grey matter had to be removed.
(5) This difference, however, did not influence the detection of rhythmical ictal activity in cheek and sphenoidal montages in our study, nor the assignment of side, site or time of seizure onset by unbiased readers.
(6) In contrast, when C is also estimated from the subject's data the model fits the data and the estimate of A is unbiased but the precision may be diminished when the actual value of C is low.
(7) It is concluded that the survey program, which continues, provides an external facility for unbiased control of commercially available as well as non-commercial assay techniques and that it has been instrumental in the improvement of gentamicin assay standard.
(8) Countrywide clinical prevalence surveys are the only unbiased means of determining the magnitude, severity, and geographic distribution of vitamin A-related corneal destruction, prerequisites for the design of public health prevention programs.
(9) Methods that replace the rare-disease assumption with the stable-population assumption (such as case-exposure designs applied to open populations) will not yield unbiased results when the source population is a fixed cohort.
(10) To draw genetical conclusions it is of fundamental importance that the material should be an unselected, unbiased material derived from a twin population.
(11) We therefore analysed these patients' survivals by the unbiased Mantel-Byar method, using a comparison of multiple survival factors (Cox's technique).
(12) All variations yield unbiased estimates of the treatment effect but estimates differ in efficiency, with the RCT being most efficient and the single-cutoff design being least efficient.
(13) We assume that gene conversion is unbiased, and that all mutations are initially deleterious.
(14) The data reported here are from a large population-based study of multiple sclerosis in twins, in which ascertainment has been relatively unbiased and the cooperation of patients nearly complete.
(15) When the geometry of the needles was unbiased, the tilt of the needles was correctly and rapidly appreciated.
(16) Images of transverse sections of the myosin filaments were determined to have threefold symmetry by cross-correlation analysis, which gives an unbiased determination of the rotational symmetry of the images.
(17) Predictions derived from growth models are conditional upon the child's size and are, therefore, unbiased.
(18) The importance of rank changes coupled with the increased accuracy of these more complex evaluation methods strongly suggest that best linear unbiased predictors of genetic value be utilized in comparing boars in central test stations.
(19) Both the ratio technique and the fractionator approaches provided efficient and unbiased estimates of fibre numbers.
(20) It is therefore increasingly important to monitor the course of the epidemic through large-scale unbiased surveys of the heterosexual population in order to plan future preventive and health-care strategies.