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Diogenes Searching for an Honest Man, attributed to J. H. W. Tischbein (c. 1780). Honesty or truthfulness is a facet of moral character that connotes positive and virtuous attributes such as integrity, truthfulness, straightforwardness (including straightforwardness of conduct: earnestness), along with the absence of lying, cheating, theft, etc. Honesty also involves being trustworthy, loyal ...
Honest (Future album), 2014; Honest, the soundtrack to the film by David A. Stewart; Honest (Dave Stewart and the Spiritual Cowboys album), 1991; Honesty (Rodney Atkins album), a 2003 album by Rodney Atkins
Incentive compatibility—a property of some strategic games that encourages participants to be honest about their preferences; See also: Truth - a concept most often used to mean in accord with fact or reality. Truthiness - a quality characterizing a "truth" that a person making an argument or assertion claims to know intuitively.
The word "pressed" connotes a certain weight put on someone. It could mean being upset or stressed to the point that something lives in your mind "rent-free," as Black Twitter might say. Or, in ...
Words with specific American meanings that have different meanings in British English and/or additional meanings common to both dialects (e.g., pants, crib) are to be found at List of words having different meanings in British and American English. When such words are herein used or referenced, they are marked with the flag [DM] (different ...
Be honest, trustworth, true [288] lid Hat [17] limey. Main article: Glossary of names for the British. 1. Englishman, Briton, or person of British descent; an English or British immigrant [289] 2. English or British ship [290] line 1. Untruth or exaggeration, often told to seek or maintain approval from others e.g. "to feed one a line" [291] 2.
Sincerity is the virtue of one who communicates and acts in accordance with the entirety of their feelings, beliefs, thoughts, and desires in a manner that is honest and genuine. [1] Sincerity in one's actions (as opposed to one's communications) may be called "earnestness".
The film's whimsical title comes from a line spoken by Fields about ten minutes into the film. Whipsnade says that his grandfather Litvak's last words, spoken "just before they sprung the trap", were: "You can't cheat an honest man; never give a sucker an even break, or smarten up a chump."