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Saturday January 29, 2000

probity \PRO-buh-tee\, noun:
Complete and confirmed integrity; uprightness.

Unless some light is shed on shady dealings and some probity restored, more young lives will be blighted and careers choked off.
-- Norman Lebrecht, Who Killed Classical Music?

To suggest that this exemplar of financial probity was enriching himself at public expense was to shake the very foundations of the new Republic.
-- William Safire, Scandalmonger

Probity is from Latin probitas, from probus, "good, upright, virtuous."

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