(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.
Ornamental
Definition:
(a.) Serving to ornament; characterized by ornament; beautifying; embellishing.
Example Sentences:
(1) It's not just a word, it's an ornament [for women]," Arinç told a crowd celebrating the end of Ramadan in the city of Bursa in an address that decried "moral corruption" in Turkey.
(2) Ornamental plants have long been used for indoor decoration.
(3) About £60m in public funds, for example, is to be spent on an ornamental footbridge across the Thames, the Garden Bridge , which was originally to have been built from the philanthropy of private enterprise until the estimates of its cost rose by £115m to £175m, at which point the London mayor Boris Johnson pledged £30m from Transport for London, with another £30m promised from George Osborne at the Treasury.
(4) Built up at the end of the 19th century to provide large family homes for white-collar workers travelling to the City on the new railway, by the 1930s those homes were being turned into lodging houses, places for single tenants to watch the rain, listen to the mice scuttle, and hang themselves from the ornamental ceiling rose.
(5) According to Cites, about 97% of the species it regulates are commercially traded for food, fuel, forest products, building materials, clothing, ornaments, health care, religious items, collections, trophy hunting and other sport.
(6) Plane trees with pom-poms, dried brown seedpods, swinging ghosts of Christmas ornaments.
(7) These bribes and rewards, often feminine or effeminate ornaments, not only beautify the already gorgeous bodies of young men, but also label and augment their value and their power.
(8) An ornamental horse stands in the grounds of Yanukovych's presidential compound.
(9) Ethylenethiourea (ETU) is a degradation product from ethylenebisdithiocarbamate such as Zineb and Maneb which have been extensively used in food crops and ornamental plants.
(10) Intentional and non-intentional (ornamental and accidental) tattoos are reviewed.
(11) Many secondary sexual characters are supposed to have evolved as a response to female choice of the most extravagantly ornamented males, a hypothesis supported by studies demonstrating female preferences for the most ornamented males.
(12) Water containing ornamental fishes was found to frequently contain countable numbers of bacteria that were resistant to one or more antibiotic or chemotherapeutic agents.
(13) Holder’s website offers a £2.50 plastic sailing ship described as “wonderfully ornamental but completely pointless vintage Chinese junk”.
(14) The university has already undertaken retrofits, taking advantage of a $3-per-square-foot reimbursement to tear out ornamental grasses, replacing them with drought resistant plants.
(15) The quite different requirements between reconstruction and ornamental studio tattooing can only be satisfied by different techniques.
(16) These loud orthographic markers, in turn, echo the profound divide that separates the Afghans' traditional society from the liberal markets from whence secondhand cars make their journey across continents, sometimes complete with dangerously loaded but misunderstood ornamental accessories.
(17) Morphological variations in Onchocerca armillata and O. gutturosa, from buffalo and cattle, with special reference to male tail and cuticular ornamentation, have been studied from a large collection of worms available from the infected aortae and ligamentum nuchae, procured from slaughter houses at 3 different localities in Uttar Pradesh, India.
(18) On the contrary, the cuticular ornamentation of the posterior region--which is composed of the area rugosa and of a system of bosses and constitutes a secondary non-skid copulatory apparatus--differs following the geographical origin of the strain.
(19) n.) for the species of Procamallanus with the buccal capsule ornamented with punctations.
(20) As with all Hawthorne's fantastic stories, and especially those written for Mosses , like "The Bosom Serpent" or "The Birth-Mark" (in which a husband becomes so obsessed with his otherwise ravishing wife's single blemish that he resolves to remove it at whatever cost), there is more going on here than an exercise in the ornamental grotesque.