Thesaurus
honesty
Synonyms and Antonyms of honesty
- George Washington has gone down in history for his honesty.
honor, honorableness, incorruptibility, rectitude, righteousness, right-mindedness, scrupulosity, scrupulousness, uprightness
artlessness, candidness, candor, forthrightness, frankness, good faith, guilelessness, ingenuousness, plainspokenness, sincerity, straightforwardness
dependability, reliability, reliableness, trustability, trustiness, trustworthiness
artifice, cozenage, crookedness, deception, dissembling, dissimulation, double-dealing, dupery, duplicity, fakery, falseness, falsity, fraudulentness, hypocrisy, insincerity, two-facedness
beguilement, craftiness, cunning, cunningness, furtiveness, guile, indirection, insidiousness, oiliness, perfidy, slickness, slipperiness, slyness, smoothness, treacherousness, trickery, underhandedness, unscrupulousness, wiliness
- He's known for his honesty in business dealings.
- She knew she could count on her students' honesty, even if she left the classroom for a few moments during the test.
corruptibility, corruption, corruptness, debasement, debauchery, decadence, degeneracy, degradation, depravity, disgrace, disgracefulness, disreputableness, dissipatedness, dissipation, dissoluteness, perversion, pervertedness, profligacy, shamelessness, venality
criminality, crookedness, dishonesty, immorality, unrighteousness, unscrupulousness
meanness, reprehensibleness, rottenness, sinfulness, vileness, villainy, wickedness, wretchedness
- I am speaking with all honesty when I say that your apple pie is the best I've ever tasted.
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