honesty
noun /ˈɒnəsti/
/ˈɑːnəsti/
[uncountable]Idioms - the quality of being honest
- She answered all my questions with her usual honesty.
- His honesty is not in question.
Extra ExamplesTopics Personal qualitiesb2- ‘Don't you love me?’ ‘I don't know,’ she said with brutal honesty.
- Are you questioning my honesty?
- He has the honesty and integrity to be chairman.
- I always expect total honesty from my employees.
- I appreciate your honesty about this.
- She answered the questions with complete honesty.
- She had the honesty to admit her mother was right.
- You need ruthless intellectual honesty about your own skills, weaknesses and motives.
- At least he had the honesty to admit he was wrong.
- She prided herself on her honesty.
- They have a reputation for scrupulous honesty.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- absolute
- complete
- total
- …
- admire
- appreciate
- value
- …
- with honesty
- honesty about
- honesty and integrity
- in all honesty
- in honesty
- …
Word OriginMiddle English: from Old French honeste, from Latin honestas, from honestus, from honos, honor. The original sense was ‘honour, respectability’, later ‘decorum, virtue, chastity’.
Idioms
in (all) honesty
- used to state a fact or an opinion that, though true, may seem disappointing
- The book isn't, in all honesty, as good as I expected.
- In all honesty, the book was not as good as I expected.
- Who in honesty can blame her?