Honest的意思|Honest的解释-里氏词典

honest ['ɒnist]

a. 诚实的, 坦直的, 可靠的

honest

[ adj ]

not disposed to cheat or defraud; not deceptive or fraudulent

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honest lawyers

honest reporting

without dissimulation; frank

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my honest opinion

worthy of being depended on

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a dependable worker

an honest working stiff

a reliable sourcSFLe of information

he was true to his word

I would be true for there are those who trust me

without pretensions

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worked at an honest trade

good honest food

marked by truth

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gave honest answers

honest reporting

not forged

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a good dollar bill

gained or earned without cheating or stealing

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an honest wage

an fair penny

Honest \Hon"est\, a. [OE. honest, onest, OF. honeste, oneste, F.
honn[^e]te, L. honestus, fr. honos, honor, honor. See
{Honor}.]
1. Decent; honorable; suitable; becoming. --Chaucer.

Belong what honest clothes you send forth to
bleaching! --Shak.

2. Characterized by integrity or fairness and
straightforwardness in conduct, thought, speech, etc.;
upright; just; equitable; trustworthy; truthful; sincere;
free from fraud, guile, or duplicity; not false; -- said
of persons and acts, and of things to which a moral
quality is imputed; as, an honest judge or merchant; an
honest statement; an honest bargain; an honest business;
an honest book; an honest confession.

An honest man's the noblest work of God. --Pope.

An honest physician leaves his patient when he can
contribute no farther to his health. --Sir W.
Temple.

Look ye out among you seven men of honest report.
--Acts vi. 3.

Provide things honest in the sight of all men.
--Rom. xii.
17.

3. Open; frank; as, an honest countenance.

4. Chaste; faithful; virtuous.

Wives may be merry, and yet honest too. --Shak.

Syn: Upright; ingenuous; honorable; trusty; faithful;
equitable; fair; just; rightful; sincere; frank; candid;
genuine.

Honest \Hon"est\, v. t. [L. honestare to clothe or adorn with
honor: cf. F. honester. See {Honest}, a.]
To adorn; to grace; to honor; to make becoming, appropriate,
or honorable. [Obs.] --Abp. Sandys.

Partly, perhaps, because Adam Smith, more than 200 years ago, was so disarmingly honest about it.
Says David Doubilet, an underwater photographer for National Geographic magazine: "Sharks, to be quite honest, are cold fish."
The rebels said the Nicaraguan election was clean and honest, saying it reflected well on Ortega. "As revolutionaries, we are proud of the honesty, the responsibility and the vision of the future our Sandinista brothers have," it said.
Markets will become less price-efficient, hopes for corporate accountability and governance dashed, the honest majority worse off. And why should capitalist acts between consenting adults in private be banned in a free society?
"Unfortunately, the SAW program as enacted by Congress is highly vulnerable to fraud," said Perry Rivkind, INS district director. "Most immigration officials and employees are hard-working, honest people.
Dukakis, who has said he would entertain tax increases only as a last resort, claimed tougher tax collection could bring in up to $50 billion a year from cheats and scofflaws without overburdening honest taxpayers.
"In all the years I've been in Washington, I've never known anybody who's been more honest than Dan Wall.
"We ought to be damned careful that this is an honest inquiry, not a political one," said Kahn, now a professor of political economy at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y.
"We need to be honest," he said.
They think the sale can go down by being (only) honest and truthful.
One woman accepted for the panel said she believed Mecham was honest, adding, "I like the man.
I think there's some politics involved, crass politics. When you hear name calling, when you hear people saying "kowtow," that is not the kindest word to say "we have an honest policy difference with this president."
'I don't think there is any limit if you have the ability, the desire and are honest.' Workers from Devonport dockyard lobby Downing Street yesterday in support of the yard's case to refit Trident nuclear submarines.
I wasn't sure when the `next honest script,' whatever that is, would come.
The Basses (virtually the only people in the tale who were consistently honest, at least so far as the author says) wound up with a profit that so far exceeds $1 billion.
"There's a lot of garbage out there, to be very honest with you." Rather than shun secondary issues, Mr. Navellier believes the trick is to find a few good ones.
They play sensitively together. The dominant Bohemian is Adrian Clarke's Marcello, incisively sung, an honest sort of fellow who can look a friend in the eye when the going gets rough.
It rides the coat-tails of a film made for teenagers, but the film at least was honest: it did not claim to be other than fiction. Clearly Heinemann scents lucre.
If so, policy-makers should at least be honest about what they are doing.
These deep and honest values are at the roots of my Texas heritage." Mr. Mitterrand, who had sent troops to participate in the war to drive Iraq out of Kuwait, was more blunt.
"I just want Anita to be honest with me," he said. "I want her to become self-sufficient, and she has promised to have no more children.
But as an honest man, I'm saying 'We're starting from the beginning'.
The Solidarity-led opposition believes it will be able to safeguard the honest conduct of the election as its people will comprise about a third of the members of the commissions running the elections.
Mistake The Air Force general named to replace the chief of staff ousted for public comments about U.S. contingency plans against Iraq says his predecessor made an "honest mistake." Gen.
It needs the support of police forces that are upright and honest, and it needs our support.
Admitting the obvious and making the most of it is the only honest, and workable, way to go.
"This is an honest view of what the public thinks about (abortion) funding," he said.
Afraid to offend and confuse with tough, honest criticism, even department heavyweights will pass the most banal and badly conceived paper, and accept the leanest excuse for absence from class, when proffered by someone of a darker hue.
A tough barrier, according to Johns Hopkins' Mr. Boland, is that even with honest prices, people living through a drought may change habits slowly.
The changes will depend on Gorbachev's success in attracting new people who are honest, innovative and able to gain the people's confidence.

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