honest

At least in more formal settings, we’re told the General American accent sounds smarter, more honest, safer—and that’s because it carries the prestige of social standing.

To be honest, I think a lot of good essay writing comes out of that.

So I’m sitting with my daughter and all of her friends—who are 13—and she says ‘Dad, can I be honest with you?

That desperate, honest, human voice, a voice willing to see change, or die, but in any event never to back up again.

He is honest about his religious doubts, but he is committed to learning more about God.

She turned to me as someone to keep her honest after she first dropped her sorority.

The man was so open and honest that his arguments had nothing underhand or crafty in them.

Office-seekers and speech-makers, who do not so much as lay an honest egg, but wear their breasts bare upon an egg of chalk!

Now look here, son, I don't usually talk about myself, but—I'm honest.

An honest man dies but once, but a traitor dies a thousand deaths.

And pray, brother, what's become of his honest companion, Duretete?