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HONESTY

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Traducere în limba română

honesty substantiv

1. onestitate, corectitudine, probitate, integritate, cinste; bună credinţă; sinceritate, francheţă;

honesty is in the best policy adevărul e cea mai bună minciună, cinstea e cea mai bună politică.

2. (bot.) pana-zburătorului (Lunaria annua, Lunaria biennis).

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

How may my honesty at least rise to any distinction?

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

Courage and honesty.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

Presently he returned to where his chair stood; and, leaning on the back of it, and occasionally putting his handkerchief to his eyes, with a simple honesty that did him more honour, to my thinking, than any disguise he could have effected, said: I have been much to blame.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

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