HONESTY in a Sentence

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For HONESTY, below is one of 48 sentences:
As always when she heard the truth spoken, no matter how unpalatable it was, basic honesty forced her to acknowledge it as truth.

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 Meanings and Examples of HONESTY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
honesty
 n.  the quality of being honest
Classic Sentence: (37 in 3 pages)
1  She would be stunned and incredulous and would speak gentle words that stung despite their gentleness, would talk of honor and honesty and truth and duty to one's neighbor.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
2  Scarlett had little use these days for honesty in herself, but the less she valued it in herself the more she was beginning to value it in others.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
3  If it were to her advantage she would have endured insults about her own virtue and honesty.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
4  As always when she heard the truth spoken, no matter how unpalatable it was, basic honesty forced her to acknowledge it as truth.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
5  At least, Scarlett tried to excuse herself that way but honesty forced her to admit that Melanie loved children and would have welcomed a dozen.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LVI
6  But honesty forced her to admit that Bonnie infinitely preferred Rhett to her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LVI
7  The first tradition, repeated in scores of magazines every month, is that the American village remains the one sure abode of friendship, honesty, and clean sweet marriageable girls.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
8  And worse than there being no decency, there was not even any honesty.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
9  Notwithstanding the symptoms of habitual suspicion, his countenance was not only without guile, but at the moment at which he is introduced, it was charged with an expression of sturdy honesty.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 3
10  Ay, ay, now there is reason in your words, for they are bottomed on religion and honesty.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 20
11  The incorruptible fidelity, piety and honesty, of Uncle Tom, had more than one development, to her personal knowledge.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
12  These are but few facts, among multitudes which might be adduced, to show the self-denial, energy, patience, and honesty, which the slave has exhibited in a state of freedom.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
13  I resolved in my future conduct to redeem the past; and I can say with honesty that my resolve was fruitful of some good.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE
14  I willingly believe it," said the knight; "I have been accustomed to study men's countenances, and I can read in thine honesty and resolution.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
15  Everything went on in pretty good order, strict cleanliness, and strict punctuality; even pretty strict honesty.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
Example Sentence:
1  I confide absolutely in his honesty.
2  It is discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
3  His name has become a byword for honesty in the community.
4  I always expect total honesty from my employees.
5  You can build on that man's honesty.
6  Some components of a thriving friendship are honesty, naturalness, thoughtfulness, some common interests.
7  I esteem your uncle for his kindness, experience, and honesty.
8  She was a model of honesty and decency.
9  She left her purse on the table as a test of the child's honesty.
10  The witness's testimony was so clear and her reputation for honesty so well-established that the defense attorney decided it was wiser to make no attempt to controvert what she said.
11  While others see this man in glowing honesty, I find him to be disingenuous.