probity

Noun

Meaning

Tried virtue or integrity; approved moral excellence; honesty; rectitude; uprightness.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

integrity fidelity good character justice godliness principle worth honor nobility reliability morality ethics purity equity
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Antonyms

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Hypernyms

integrity

Related terms

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Examples

Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt. Felix Adler

True heroism is minutes, hours, weeks, year upon year of the quiet, precise, judicious exercise of probity and care-with no one there to see or cheer. This is the world. David Foster Wallace

The probity that scintillizes in the superfices of your persons informs my ratiocinating faculty, in a most stupendous manner, of the radiant virtues latent within the precious caskets and ventricles of your minds. François Rabelais

The public are entitled to have an absolute guarantee of the financial probity and integrity of their elected representatives, their officials and above all of Ministers. They need to know that they are under financial obligations to nobody. Bertie Ahern

By calling him humourless I mean to impugn his seriousness, categorically: such a man must rig up his probity ex nihilo. Martin Amis

Discipline is as much facing the enemy within as the enemy before you; for without critical judgement, the weapon you wield delivers - and let us not be coy here - naught but murder. And its first victim is the moral probity of your cause. Steven Erikson

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