Thesaurus
honesty
Synonyms and Antonyms of honesty
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devotion to telling the truth
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
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conduct that conforms to an accepted standard of right and wrong
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faithfulness to high moral standards
corruptibility, corruption, corruptness, debasement, debauchery, decadence, degeneracy, degradation, depravity, disgrace, disgracefulness, disreputableness, dissipatedness, dissipation, dissoluteness, looseness, perversion, pervertedness, profligacy, shamelessness, venality
blameworthiness, criminality, crookedness, dishonesty, immorality, unrighteousness, unscrupulousness
knavery, rascality, roguishness
meanness, reprehensibleness, rottenness, sinfulness, vileness, villainy, wickedness, wretchedness
4
the free expression of oneʼs true feelings and opinions
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