(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.
Wickedness
Definition:
(n.) The quality or state of being wicked; departure from the rules of the divine or the moral law; evil disposition or practices; immorality; depravity; sinfulness.
(n.) A wicked thing or act; crime; sin; iniquity.
Example Sentences:
(1) But just as Oliver Stone has managed to make a boring sequel to Wall Street, despite the real Wall Street's enthralling and nigh-on-cinematic recent wickedness (the inner Freudian torment of boring Shia LaBoeuf's boring character is apparently more interesting to Stone – once the great purveyor of conspiracy theories – than the near-collapse of capitalism), so the makers of the upcoming films about Facebook have missed an obvious trick with their movies.
(2) Tony Abbott has recently delivered an explicit warning that the Daesh death cult is “coming for us”, however, Turnbull argued it was important not to get sucked into the Isis strategy “and ourselves become amplifiers of their wickedness and significance”.
(3) It is towards an anti-government fervour that recalls the militia movement of the 1990s, convinced that every Washington move – even a plan to expand healthcare – is motivated by wickedness and constitutes a step towards tyranny.
(4) Less welcome was Professor Griff's 1989 interview with the Washington Times where he condemned Jews as responsible for 'the majority of the wickedness that goes on across the globe'.
(5) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Video: Volkswagen chief executive Martin Winterkorn resigns, taking responsibility for the German carmaker’s rigging of US emissions tests Yet it would be simplistic to blame the wickedness of the industry and to suppose that the consumers involved were entirely innocent idealists, cruelly misled by unscrupulous marketeers.
(6) I know we are supposed to present them as extreme wickedness but they don’t appear like that to lots of Labour voters who thought this was mainstream Labour policy.
(7) There is a certain perverse charm to what appears to be Sepp’s final mission: exposing the weaknesses and wickedness of everyone who has profited from his regime down the decades.
(8) Maybe that’s because Laurie’s Roper has been enter taining us for so long with his cool, his wit, his urbanity and his sheer wickedness that we don’t want to let him go.
(9) They lament western wickedness with the reliability of professional mourners.
(10) Before tragedy strikes, we must all take the initiative and talk to these families, listen to their problems but, ultimately, we must take proactive steps to help them before "hate" and "wickedness" take a hold.
(11) We now know the banks' tricks involved not just dubious wizardry but a measure of wickedness too.
(12) Alice Morgan – said patricidal psychopath, played with delicious wickedness by Ruth Wilson – is one of TV's most unusual sidekicks.
(13) When I asked my friend the professor of gender studies about all this stuff some time ago (I know this sounds like the overture to a joke, but it isn't), I was semi-secretly hoping for a jeremiad on the wickedness of princess-mania, and tips on how she'd saved her daughters from it.Actually, she said, one of hers had that obsession too, for a bit – but that other obsessions came along to supplant them.
(14) This warning about the lure of wickedness reveals how Prince’s vision of the battle between good and evil was much darker than Burton’s take.
(15) When the full extent of his wickedness was revealed, we put him in a box marked "monster".
(16) Just as some were putting the wickedness of Savile and his ilk in a box marked “long ago”, Rochdale broke and the abuse of children in care was revealed.
(17) Under the amendment the same buildings, the same canteen, the same umbrella stands, the same courses, the same bitching about Orbán and his wickedness can continue, and students can get a qualification recognised in Europe .
(18) Stories such as the prime minister’s surprisingly resilient support for the charity, the lobbying of a Conservative party co-treasurer – James Lupton – and the embedding of two civil servants to help restructure the organisation somehow became examples of the wickedness that had taken root in the charity.
(19) What many people seem to want is to be confirmed in their view that all of this is down to the personal wickedness of a single individual; arrest Blair, clap him in irons at The Hague, and everything will return to a state of primal, unsullied innocence.
(20) The virtue of Israel and the wickedness of her enemies are recurring themes in his work."