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Honesty

Honor; honorableness; dignity; propriety; suitableness; decency.

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Candidness 76% connected

The quality of being candid.

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Candor 76% connected

Whiteness; brightness; (as applied to moral conditions) usullied purity; innocence.

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Directness 76% connected

The quality of being direct; straightness; straightforwardness; immediateness.

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Forthrightness 76% connected

Straightforwardness; explicitness; directness.

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Frankness 76% connected

The quality of being frank; candor; openess; ingenuousness; fairness; liberality.

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Incorruptibility 76% connected

The quality of being incorruptible; incapability of corruption.

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Incorruption 76% connected

The condition or quality of being incorrupt or incorruptible; absence of, or exemption from, corruption.

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Incorruptness 76% connected

Freedom or exemption from decay or corruption.

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Integrity 76% connected

The state or quality of being entire or complete; wholeness; entireness; unbroken state; as, the integrity of an empire or territory.

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Straightness 76% connected

The quality, condition, or state, of being straight; as, the straightness of a path.

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Herb 76% connected

A plant whose stem does not become woody and permanent, but dies, at least down to the ground, after flowering.

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Righteousness 76% connected

The quality or state of being righteous; holiness; purity; uprightness; rectitude.

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Honest 74% connected

Decent; honorable; suitable; becoming.

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Honest 74% connected

Decent; honorable; suitable; becoming.

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Corrupt 66% connected

Changed from a sound to a putrid state; spoiled; tainted; vitiated; unsound.

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Corrupt 66% connected

Changed from a sound to a putrid state; spoiled; tainted; vitiated; unsound.

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Square 66% connected

The corner, or angle, of a figure.

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Square 66% connected

The corner, or angle, of a figure.

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Straight 66% connected

A variant of Strait, a.

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Straight 66% connected

A variant of Strait, a.

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