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Definition: Honesty |
HonestyNoun1. The quality of being honest. 2. Southeastern European plant cultivated for its fragrant purplish flowers and round flat papery silver-white seedpods that are used for indoor decoration. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "honesty" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
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Honesty is often thought of as the opposite of lying. However, this is a very narrow definition that is often thought of as being very "Western" or dualist.Most moral philosophy would recognize a sort of trivial dishonesty that is part of etiquette, "little white lies" and "polite lying", as acceptable, and usually also recognizes the acceptability of lying under grave risk of bodily harm to self or others - Benjamin Constant's "Middle Principle" was one such provision. However, there are some that seek a much more comprehensive ethical certainty about what one says - Immanuel Kant for instance was quite rigid about this. Confucius recognized several levels of honesty, fundamental to his ethics:
His shallowest concept of honesty was implied in his notion of Li: all actions committed by a person to build the ideal society - aiming at meeting their surface desires of a person either immediately (bad) or longer term (good). To admit that one sought immediate gratification could however make a bad act better, and to hide one's long term goals could cloud a good act. A key principle was that a "gentleman" must strive to convey his feelings honestly on his face, so that these could help each other coordinate for long term gain for all. So there was a visible relation between time horizon, etiquette and one's image of oneself even in the mirror. This generates self-honesty and keeps such activities as business calm, unsurprising, and above-board. In this conception, one is honest because it suits one's own self-interest only.
Deeper than Li was Yi or righteousness. Rather than pursuing your own selfish interests you should do what is right and what is moral - based on reciprocity. Here too time is central, but as a time span: since your parents spent your first three years raising you, you spent three mourning them after they die. At this level one is honest about one's obligations and duty. Even with no one else to keep you honest or relate to directly, a deeply honest person would relate to ancestors as if they were alive, and not act in ways that would make them ashamed. This was part of the moral code that included ancestor worship, but Confucius had made it rigorous.
The deepest level of honesty was Ren, out of which flowed Yi and thus Li. Confucius' morality was based upon empathy and understanding others, which required understanding one's own moral core first, rather than divinely ordained rules, which could simply be obeyed. The Confucian version of the Golden Rule was to treat your inferiors as you would want your superiors to treat you. Virtue under Confucius is based upon harmony with others, and a recognition of the honest reality that eventually (say in old age) one will come under the power of others (say one's children). So this level of honesty is to actually put oneself in context of one's whole life and future generations - and choose to do or say nothing that would not reflect one's family's honour and reputation for honesty and acceptance of truth, such as eventual death.
Partially because of incomplete understanding of these deeper notions of honesty among Westerners, in China and Japan it is common to refer to those who do not have them as barbarians. While sometimes Asian cultures sanction an almost intolerable degree of delay and ambiguity for Western tastes, it is very often to avoid lying, or giving a positive impression where doubt exists. These would be thought dishonest by Asians. Thus pressing for a decision on a matter where it is not yet possible to give an honest commitment or answer is seen as extremely rude - in effect, forcing someone to choose to be either rude or dishonest. Both being unthinkable in traditional culture, one thus delays.
Education is often emphasized in ethical traditions because it may be impossible to be considered honest without acquiring some terminology which which to state truth as understood by the society. Thus ignorance can itself generate dishonesty.
See also: doubt, blame
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Honesty."
Synonyms: HonestySynonyms: honestness (n), money plant (n), satin flower (n), satinpod (n), silver dollar (n). (additional references) |
| Antonym: dishonesty (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Artlessness | Noun: artlessness; adj; nature, simplicity; innocence; bonhomie, naivete, abandon, candor, sincerity; singleness of purpose, singleness of heart; honesty; plain speaking; epanchement. |
Probity | Noun: probity, integrity, uprightness; Adjective: honesty, faith; honor; bonne foi, good faith, bona fides; purity, clean hands. |
Purity | Noun: purity; decency, decorum, delicacy; continence, honesty, virtue, modesty, shame; pudicity, pucelage, virginity. |
Veracity | Noun: veracity; truthfulness, frankness; Adjective: truth, sincerity, candor, unreserve, honesty, fidelity; plain dealing, bona fides; love of truth; probity; ingenuousness; (artlessness). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Honesty |
| English words defined with "honesty": corruption, corruptness ♦ dishonest, dishonesty, distrust, downright ♦ Equity of redemption ♦ genus Lunaria, Good fellowship ♦ hierarchal, hierarchic, hierarchical, hierarchy, Honestetee ♦ impeach ♦ justice of the peace, justifiedly, justly ♦ knavery ♦ Lunaria, Lunaria biennis ♦ misgiving, mistrust, moral hazard ♦ rightly ♦ satin flower, square, squarely, straight, subversion, suspicion ♦ To take to, trust, trustfulness, trustingness ♦ unscrupulous. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "honesty": Abhor ♦ Due, Duresley ♦ March ♦ Owing. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "honesty": Honestetee. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | There's no room for honesty in a healthy relationship (XX/XY; writing credit: Austin Chick) I mean to say, this is the first time I've been torn between loyalty and honesty. (Raw Wind in Eden; writing credit: Dan Lundberg; Elizabeth Wilson) You don't have to spend every day of your life proving your honesty, but I do. (To Catch a Thief; writing credit: David Dodge; John Michael Hayes) That is of use. Honesty attracts confidence, and confidence is our core of our business (The Prisoner; writing credit: Dennis Marks) Betty said that honesty was the best politics (Sons of the Desert; writing credit: Frank Craven; Byron Morgan) | |
Lyrics | Honesty is hardly ever heard (Honesty; performing artist: Billy Joel) In all honesty (Something About The Way You Look Tonight; performing artist: Elton John) Trust and honesty too (Hold On; performing artist: En Vogue) They don't act with much honesty (All Those Years Ago; performing artist: George Harrison) I want to thank you for your generosity, the love and the honesty that you gave me (Kind and Generous; performing artist: Natalie Merchant) | |
Clever | Honesty is the best policy -- when there is money in it. (references; author: Mark Twain) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Honesty Is the Best Policy (1926) Business Before Honesty (1918) Winky Learns a Lesson in Honesty (1914) What Price Honesty (1981) | |
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 | Uncle Sam, reading bumps of "selfishness," "ignorance," "honesty," and other words on head of Democratic Party. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | For Party honesty. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | For peace and honesty : McGovern for President. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| Author | Quotation |
Author Unknown | Honesty shines like a light through your eyes. |
C. Simmons | Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty. |
Charles Baudelaire | For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation. |
Decimus Junius Juvenal | Honesty is praised and starves. |
Grover Cleveland | Party honesty is party expedience. |
Johann Friedrich Von Schiller | Honesty prospers in every condition of life. |
Mahatma Gandhi | There are ninety-nine men who believe in honesty for every honest man. |
Plato | Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty. |
Plutarch | The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education. |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
John Locke | 1690 | Thus we may see how probable it is, that people that were naturally free, and by their own consent either submitted to the government of their father, or united together out of different families to make a government, should generally put the rule into one man's hands, and chuse to be under the conduct of a single person, without so much as by express conditions limiting or regulating his power, which they thought safe enough in his honesty and prudence; though they never dreamed of monarchy being Jure Divino, which we never heard of among mankind, till it was revealed to us by the divinity of this last age; nor ever allowed paternal power to have a right to dominion, or to be the foundation of all government. (Second Treatise of Government) |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Few know how much certain feeble beings, who have grown old in privation and honesty, can extract from a sou. |
King Richard III | Shakespeare, William | To thee, that hast nor honesty nor grace |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | Yet he thoroughly believed in honesty and the like virtues |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Above all, initial honesty is of real value in the long-term handling of any problems. (references) | |
Knowledge of STDs, as well as honesty and openness with sex partners and with one's doctor, can be very important in reducing the incidence and complications of sexually transmitted diseases. (references) | ||
Business | Productive long-term business relationships are built on a foundation of honesty and mutual respect. (references) | |
The center-right National Action Party (PAN) advocates private sector-oriented policies, and more honesty in government. (references) | ||
Economic History | Eritrea | Eritrea has a reputation for honesty. (references) |
Colombia | The Superintendency of Securities has promulgated regulations aimed at ensuring transparency and honesty in the marketplace. (references) | |
Political Economy | Peru | The U.S. government likewise has concerns about the lack of citizen confidence in the independence and honesty of the Peruvian judiciary. (references) |
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| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Gerald Ford | In all my public and private acts as your president, I expect to follow my instincts of openness and candor with full confidence that honesty is always the best policy in the end. My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over. |
Rush Limbaugh | But as President Bush himself has proven, you need dignity, honesty, and character in office, and you will not have corruption regardless of the system. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | In law and honesty the notes of the bank in circulation at the expiration of its charter should have been called in by public advertisement, paid up as presented, and, together with those on hand, canceled and destroyed. |
Calvin Coolidge | 1923-1929 | Common honesty and good faith with the people who support a party at the polls require that party, when it enters office, to assume the control of that portion of the Government to which it has been elected. |
Gerald Ford | 1974-1977 | But in all honesty, we cannot put all of the blame on the oil-exporting nations. |
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| "Honesty" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Honesty" is used about 697 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 697 | 9,565 |
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Expressions using "honesty": equivocal honesty ♦ in all honesty ♦ suspect smb.'s honesty. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "honesty": honesty-to. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "honesty"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | ndershmëri (fair dealing, honor, honour, integrity, probity, rectitude, righteousness, scrupulosity, straightforwardness, truth, virtue). (various references) | |
Arabic | إستقامة (bluntness, consistency, integrity, justice, probity, propriety, rectitude, righteousness, sanity, squareness, straightforwardness, straightness, virtue), إخلاص (adherence, allegiance, candor, candour, constancy, dedication, devotion, fidelity, genuineness, loyalty, sincerity, steadiness, trueness, trustfulness), أمانة (integrity, probity, sincerity, trueness, trusteeship), براءة (diploma, exculpation, guiltlessness, innocence, primitiveness, pureness, rescript). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | честност (fair dealing, fairness, faith, faithfulness, honor, honour, integrity, loyalty, probity, rectitude, sportsmanship, straightforwardness, straightness, truth), прямота (bluntness, candidness, candor, candour, directness, fair dealing, frankness, sincerity, straightforwardness, straightness), правдивост (truth, truthfulness, veracity), почтеност (integrity, respectability). (various references) | |
Chinese | 誠實 (honest, honorable, truthful), 诚实 (honest, honestness, Probity, truthfulness, Veracity), 忱 (sincerity). (various references) | |
Czech | upřímnost (candidness, candour, depth, directness, fair dealing, frankness, openness, sincerity, true-heartedness), poctivost (rightness, scrupulous), èestnost (integrity). (various references) | |
Farsi | صداقت (Loyalty, Truth, Veracity), امانت (Integrity, Safekeeping, Trust, Trusteeship), راستکاری , دیانت , درستی (Accuracy, Integrity, Justice, Legitimacy, Precision, Rectitude, Truth), درستکاری (Rectitude). (various references) | |
Finnish | rehellisyys (integrity), kunniallisuus (honourableness, respectability). (various references) | |
French | honnêteté, sincérité, probité, intégrité, innocence. (various references) | |
German | ehrlichkeit (forthrightness), redlichkeit (probity, loyalness), Ehre (honor, honour, kudos). (various references) | |
Greek | ειλικρίνεια (candidness, candor, candour, devoutness, openness, sincereness, sincerity, single-mindedness, unfeignedness, veracity), τιμιότησ, τιμιότητα (squareness). (various references) | |
Hebrew | יושר (equity, integrity, probity, rectitude, righteousness, sincerity, straight, straightness, virtue), ישרות (directly, integrity, straight, straightness), תמימות (completeness, innocence, integrity, naivety, simplicity), תום לב (integrity, naivety), אמת (truth), כשרות (fitness, lawfulness, propriety, validity), כנות (candour, frankness, genuineness, sincerity), הגינות (decency, decorum, equity, fairness, morality, plain dealing, propriety, rectitude, respectability, seemliness, sincerity, squareness, worthiness), צדק (fairness, integrity, justice, justness, right, righteousness, rightness, straightness). (various references) | |
Hungarian | tisztesség (respectability), becsületesség (rectitude, probity). (various references) | |
Indonesian | ketangguhan (integrity, strength, tenacy), kejujuran (candour, integrity), kebenaran (correctness, fact, righteousness, rightness, truth). (various references) | |
Italian | onestà (forthrightness), lealtà (loyalty), correttezza (correctness). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 正直 (frankness, integrity), 信実 (faithfulness, sincerity, truth), 信実 (faithfulness, sincerity, truth), 固さ (firmness, hardness, stiffness), 律儀 (conscientiousness, faithfulness), 律儀 (conscientiousness, faithfulness), 律義 (integrity), 堅さ (firmness, hardness, stiffness), 正直 (frankness, integrity), 真面 (direct, front, uprightness), 正面 (facade, front, frontage, main, the front), 朴直 (naivete, simplicity), 硬さ (firmness, hardness, stiffness), 生一本 (purity, straight-forwardness), 生真面目 (person who is too serious, sincerity, too serious), 直 (at once, being straight, cheerfulness, common, correctness, direct, earnestly, exactly, frankness, immediately, in person, just, mischief, near by, night duty, ordinary, simplicity, soon, straight), 真率 (frankness, sincerity), 清廉 (integrity, purity and unselfishness). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | きまじめ (person who is too serious, sincerity, too serious), きいっぽん (purity, straight-forwardness), しょうじき (frankness, integrity), しんそつ (frankness, newgraduate, sincerity), しんじつ (faithfulness, reality, sincerity, truth), まとも (direct, front, the front, uprightness), ぼくちょく (naivete, simple and honest, simplicity), せいれん (integrity, purity and unselfishness, refining, scouring, smelting, temper, tempering, training), かたさ (firmness, hardness, stiffness), りちぎ (conscientiousness, faithfulness, integrity), じき (abandonment, at once, being straight, chance, cheerfulness, china, correctness, despair, desperation, direct, frankness, in person, just, magnetism, near by, next period, next term, night duty, opportunity, period, porcelain, season, seasons, self-recording, simplicity, soon, time, writing oneself), ちょく (at once, being straight, cheerfulness, correctness, direct, frankness, imperial decree, imperial edict, in person, just, near by, night duty, simplicity, soon). (various references) | |
Korean | 정직 (honestness). (various references) | |
Manx | ynrickys (correctness, directness, downrightness, faith, faithfulness, frankness, guilelessness, integration, probity, sincerity, straightforwardness, straightness, trustiness, truth, truthfulness), onnerid, lus luna, jeerid (alignment, candour, directness, faithfulness, frankness, ingeniousness, sincerity, straightness, strictness). (various references) | |
Norwegian | redelighet (fairness), ærlighet. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | onestyhay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | honestidade (fairdealing, faith, integrity, sincerity, singleness), sinceridade (sincerity), retido, probidade (fairdealing, probity, rectitude, righteousness), integridade (integrity). (various references) | |
Romanian | sinceritate (bluntness, candidness, candor, candour, directness, fairness, faith, frankness, genuineness, guilelessness, openness, rectitude, roundness, sincerity, truth, unreserve), probitate (probity, uprightness), onestitate (genuineness, integrity, probity, truth), loialitate (fairness, faith, faithfulness, fealty, fidelity, loyalty, sincerity, sportsmanship, uprightness), lealitate (straightforwardness), integritate (entirety, integrity, uprightness), francheţe (candor, candour, frankness, openness), corectitudine (correctness, precision, rectitude, rightness, sportsmanship, straight), cinste (appreciation, ceremony, chastity, consideration, credit, crown, esteem, fairness, faith, faithfulness, fame, Favor, favour, fealty, gift, glory, honor, honour, integrity, morality, probity, repute, respect, straight, treat, truth, uprightness, virtue). (various references) | |
Russian | честность (fair dealing, fair play, fairness, probity, rectitude, scrupulosity, straight dealing). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | poštenje (fair dealing, fairness, faithfulness), časnost. (various references) | |
Spanish | honestidad. (various references) | |
Swedish | hederlighet (fair dealing, fairness, faith, honorableness, honourableness, integrity), ärlighet (fair dealing, fairness, sincerity). (various references) | |
Thai | ความซื่อสัตย์ (integrity, loyalty, openness), ความจริงใจ (sincerity). (various references) | |
Turkish | namus (honor, honour), gözlükotu, doğruluk (accuracy, authenticity, candor, candour, correctitude, correctness, directness, evenness, exactitude, exactness, faithfulness, fidelity, integrity, justice, justness, preciseness, precision, prig, probity, rectitude, right, righteousness, rightness, sincerity, soundness, straightforwardness, straightness, trueness, truth, truthfulness, uprightness, validity, veracity, Verity), dürüstlük (conscientiousness, correctitude, correctness, directness, erectness, evenness, fairness, faithfulness, incorruptibility, incorruption, integrity, justice, probity, rectitude, righteousness, sincereness, sincerity, squareness, straightforwardness, straightness, truth, uprightness, veracity), alçakgönüllülük (delicacy, demureness, humbleness, humility, lowliness, meekness, modesty, nobleness, pudency, simple-mindedness, submission, submissiveness). (various references) | |
Turkmen | pдklik. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | чесність (fair dealing, faithfulness, honor, honour, integrity, probity, rectitude, scrupulosity, scrupulousness, sincerity, straightforwardness, straightness, uprightness), правдивість (truth, truthfulness, veracity), порядність (decency, respectability, sportsmanship, well doing). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | tính lương thiện tính trung thực, cây luna. (various references) | |
Welsh | onestrwydd, gonestrwydd. (various references) | |
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| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | fide, fidei, fidem, fides, honestas, honestate, honestatem, honestati, honestatis, probitas, veritas, veritate, veritatem, veritates, veritati, veritatis. (various references) |
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| Language | Date | Source | 1 Timothy Chapter 2, Verse 2 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Uper basilewn kai pantwn twn en uperoch ontwn ina hremon kai hsucion bion diagwmen en pash eusebeia kai semnothti |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Pro regibus et omnibus qui in sublimitate sunt ut quietam et tranquillam vitam agamus in omni pietate et castitate |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | For kingis and alle that ben set in hiynesse, that we leden a quyet and a pesible lijf, in al pite and chastite. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | For kynges and for all that are in auctorite that we maye live a quyet and a peasable life in all godlines and honestie. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | For kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | For kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | For kings and all those in authority; so that we may have a calm and quiet life in all fear of God and serious behaviour. |
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| Language | 1 Timothy Chapter 2, Verse 2 |
| Cebuano | alang sa mga hari ug sa tanang anaa sa hatag-as nga pagpamunoan, aron kita magakinabuhi nga mahusay ug malinawon, diosnon ug matinahuron sa tanang paagi. |
| Croatian | za kraljeve i sve koji su na vlasti, da provodimo miran i spokojan život u svoj bogoljubnosti i ozbiljnosti. |
| Danish | for Konger og alle dem, som ere i Højhed, at vi må leve et roligt og stille Levned i al Gudsfrygt og Ærbarhed; |
| Dutch | Voor koningen, en allen, die in hoogheid zijn; opdat wij een gerust en stil leven leiden mogen in alle godzaligheid en eerbaarheid. |
| Finnish | kuningasten ja kaiken esivallan puolesta, että saisimme viettää rauhallista ja hiljaista elämää kaikessa jumalisuudessa ja kunniallisuudessa. |
| French | pour les rois et pour tous ceux qui sont élevés en dignité, afin que nous menions une vie paisible et tranquille, en toute piété et honnêteté. |
| German | für die Könige und alle Obrigkeit, auf daß wir ein ruhiges und stilles Leben führen mögen in aller Gottseligkeit und Ehrbarkeit. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | untuk raja-raja dan untuk semua orang yang memegang kekuasaan. Mintalah supaya kita dapat hidup tenang dan tentram untuk Allah dengan kelakuan yang patut. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | bagi segala raja dan segala orang besar-besar, supaya boleh kita melakukan suatu kehidupan yang aman dan sejahtera di dalam segala ibadat dan hal yang sopan. |
| Italian | per i re e per tutti quelli che stanno al potere, perché possiamo trascorrere una vita calma e tranquilla con tutta pietà e dignità. |
| Maori | Mo nga kingi, mo te hunga whai mana katoa hoki: kia ata noho marie ai tatou i runga i nga whakaaro karakia, i nga tikanga mahara katoa. |
| Norwegian | for konger og alle dem som er i høi verdighet, forat vi kan leve et rolig og stille liv i all gudsfrykt og sømmelighet. |
| Portuguese | pelos reis, e por todos os que exercem autoridade, para que tenhamos uma vida tranqüila e sossegada, em toda a piedade e honestidade. |
| Rumanian | pentru kmpqrayi wi pentru toyi cei ce sknt knqlyayi kn dregqtorii, ca sq putem duce astfel o viayq pacinicq wi liniwtitq, cu toatq evlavia wi cu toatq cinstea. |
| Russian | ЪБ ГБТЕК Й ЪБ ЧУЕИ ОБЮБМШУФЧХАЭЙИ, ДБВЩ РТПЧПДЙФШ ОБН ЦЙЪОШ ФЙИХА Й ВЕЪНСФЕЦОХА ЧП ЧУСЛПН ВМБЗПЮЕУФЙЙ Й ЮЙУФПФЕ, |
| Shuar | Imiatkinchanum pujusar Yusjaisha tura aentsjaisha shiir Túratai tusar tura Ashí akupin ainia nusha pénker akupkarat tusar Yus áujtustiniaitji. |
| Spanish | por los reyes y por todos los que están en eminencia, para que llevemos una vida tranquila y reposada en toda piedad y dignidad. |
| Swahili | kwa ajili ya wafalme na wote wenye mamlaka, ili tupate kuishi maisha ya utulivu na amani pamoja na uchaji wa Mungu na mwenendo mwema. |
| Swedish | för konungar och all överhet, så att vi kunna föra ett lugnt och stilla liv, på ett i allo fromt och värdigt sätt. |
| Uma | mposampayai magau' duu' -na hawe'ea topoparenta. Kana taposampayai-ra, bona rodo-hawo katuwu' -ta pai' neo' -tawo ria to mpobalinai' -ta, bona mologa-ta mepue' hi Alata'ala pai' mpobabehi oa' gau' to natao rabila' doo. |
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Derivations | |
Words ending with "honesty": dishonesty. (additional references) | |
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"Honesty" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Henesy, honesta, honeste, honestee, Honesto, honety, honisty, Honnert, honsety. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "honesty" (pronounced Ä"nustē) |
| 6 | Ä" n u s t ē | dishonesty. |
| 5 | -n u s t ē | amnesty, dynasty. |
| 4 | -u s t ē | majesty, modesty, travesty. |
| 3 | -s t ē | angioplasty, Beastie, bloodthirsty, Christie, Christy, crusty, dusty, feisty, frosty, gusty, hasty, lusty, misty, musty, nasty, rusty, sixty, tasty, testy, thirsty, trusty, twisty. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-h-n-o-s-t-y" | |
-1 letter: ethnos, honest, honeys, stoney. | |
-2 letters: ethos, hents, hones, honey, hosen, hyson, nosey, notes, onset, seton, shent, shone, shote, steno, stone, stony, synth, thens, those, tones, toney, tynes. | |
-3 letters: eons, eths, hens, hent, hest, hets, hoes, hone, hons, hose, host, hots, hoys, hyte, nest, nets, noes, nose, nosh, nosy, note, ones, oyes, sent, shoe. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-h-n-o-s-t-y" | |
+1 letter: honestly, youthens. | |
+2 letters: erythrons, holystone, neophytes, pantyhose, pythoness. | |
+3 letters: dishonesty, endophytes, erythrosin, heteronyms, holystoned, holystones, hypnotizes, hypotenuse, newsworthy, phenocryst, phenotypes, phenytoins, polythenes, thyroxines. | |
+4 letters: chatoyances, cherrystone, choanocytes, dishonestly, erythrosine, erythrosins, heterodynes, honeyeaters, hypertonias, hypocenters, hypotension, hypotensive, hypotenuses, hypothenuse, nympholepts, pennyworths, periphytons, phenocrysts, pythonesses, semimonthly, stenography, stereophony, trichogynes, unseaworthy. | |
+5 letters: attorneyship, autohypnoses, biosyntheses, biosynthesis, biosynthetic, chatoyancies, cherrystones, countermyths, dehydrations, erythrosines, ethnohistory, hematoxylins, hydrogenates, hypertension, hyphenations, hypotensions, hypotensives, hypothenuses, lycanthropes, lysolecithin, methylations, phenocrystic, phytoalexins, polyanthuses, polytechnics, pyrotechnics, pyrotechnist, rehydrations, rehypnotizes, stonyhearted, synarthroses, synchroneity, thiocyanates, thunderously, tryptophanes, unnewsworthy, youthfulness. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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