(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.
Veridical
Definition:
(a.) Truth-telling; truthful; veracious.
Example Sentences:
(1) We studied how much blue, green, or red light had to be added to or subtracted from white to obtain veridical hue perception (blue, green, red, or their complementary colours) at various locations in the temporal visual field.
(2) This rotation is believed to pose a problem with veridical stereoscopic localization.
(3) It is controversial whether or not veridical feedback is necessary to bring about increases in alpha activity in the feedback situation and has been suggested that the instructional variable may be a crucial determinant of outcome.
(4) What happens to the timing of the grasp movements involved in catching a ball when optical expansion information is not veridically provided?
(5) In light of these two qualitatively different deficits, possible mechanisms are discussed how the two signals may interact towards a more veridical visual localization.
(6) When room reflectance was high (T60 approximately 1.7 s for the range of frequencies used), initial reports of distance were often overestimates; upon repeated presentation, judgments in the high reflectance room became more nearly veridical.
(7) However, in the presence of colour contrast, significantly higher levels of luminance contrast are required to achieve a veridical velocity than for monochromatic stimuli with only luminance contrast.
(8) If fear faces are functionally analogous to prepared stimuli, then, even in the absence of veridical support for an expectation of shock, they should retain excitatory strength, whereas happy faces should not.
(9) Phenomenal geometry is expected to apply to both veridical and illusory perceptions.
(10) Once distorted, return to veridical attitude perception can be gradual because, in the absence of complimentary canal or visual information, recovery is dependent upon relatively slow cognitive appreciation of a prevailing otolith position signal.
(11) However, there was one noticeable exception; during the combination 'head rotation on stationary trunk', Ss veridically perceived their trunk as stationary (compatible with the notion that the sum yielded 'zero').
(12) This study was designed to determine whether veridical interpersonal perceptions can be found on the basis of physiognomic cues.
(13) Results demonstrated considerable veridicality, especially by male judges and of stimulus persons occupying categories which imply physical attributes.
(14) This lack of correlation suggests that the responses obtained when viewing either the DOG target or retinoscope beam may not represent a veridical measure of TA.
(15) From published data it has been possible to calculate the magnitude of the vertical disparities that the human visual system must be able to discriminate in order for depth constancy to have the observed level of veridicality.
(16) Perceptual content is how the external intentional object perspectivally appears from moment to moment and how it is perceptually taken to be, veridically or not.
(17) The obtained data indicate that increasing the availability of binocular disparity by increasing viewing screen width favors veridical rotation perception.
(18) Regardless of hand used, right-handers bisected vertical lines significantly above veridical center.
(19) This report examines the accuracy or veridicality of information obtained through interviews with drug addicts.
(20) The CIE 1931 (x, y) chromaticity coordinates corresponding to a veridical hue perception were subtracted from the chromaticity coordinates of the white (0.35, 0.35) in order to obtain the threshold differences (dx, dy) in chromaticity coordinates.