Sample sentences for INTEGRITY

2 meanings

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1 —as in:
a person of high integrity

Definition

having strong moral principles — especially honesty

They agreed to have her judge the contest because everyone admires her integrity.

integrity = moral principles

Other Uses (with this meaning)

The District Attorney created the Justice System Integrity Division to detect, investigate, and prosecute criminal misconduct among those sworn to uphold the law.

integrity = moral principles

Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.
Oprah Winfrey
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
Samuel Johnson
The police, as servants of the law, must be of a high order of integrity.
Agatha Christie -- And Then There Were None

integrity = moral principles

I'm no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and in the jury system— that is no ideal to me, it is a living, working reality.
Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird

integrity = reputation for maintaining strong moral principles

integrity = strong moral principles

I copied the text, not including Caravaggio's full name because, in a selective display of integrity, I decided that would be cheating.
Tara Westover -- Educated

integrity = moral principles

"Integrity," she said next. "Jonas has, like all of us, committed minor transgressions."
Lois Lowry -- The Giver

integrity = reputation for maintaining strong moral principles

If I was going to toy with him and challenge his loyalty, then he'd toy with me, test my integrity.
Khaled Hosseini -- The Kite Runner

integrity = moral principles

2 —as in:
system integrity

Definition

an undivided or unbroken completeness or totality with nothing wanting

integrity = an undivided or unbroken completeness or totality with nothing wanting

Other Uses (with this meaning)

The aircraft lost structural integrity.
The integrity of the nervous system is required for normal development.
The database assures referential integrity.
The frost feathers holding me up, it became apparent, were maybe five inches thick and had the structural integrity of stale corn bread.
Jon Krakauer -- Into the Wild

integrity = strength (unbroken completeness)

Sure, it may never come along, but at least they can rest easily in the grave knowing that they've done their little part to preserve the integrity of the Wish as an idea.
John Green -- The Fault in Our Stars

integrity = strength (unbroken completeness)

It is as though the dark were resolving him out of his integrity, into an unrelated scattering of components
William Faulkner -- As I Lay Dying

integrity = an undivided completeness

I have as much interest in the maintenance of .... the integrity of the nation as any other man.... This is the first test of a modern free government in the act of sustaining itself against internal enemys . . .
James M. McPherson -- What They Fought For - 1861-1865

integrity = an undivided or unbroken completeness

During the antebellum period many southerners had avoided using the words slaves and slavery, preferring instead servants and southern institutions. Some Confederate soldiers kept up this practice even in private letters, referring to "our own social institutions," "the integrity of all our institutions," "the institutions of the whole South" as the cause for which they fought.
James M. McPherson -- What They Fought For - 1861-1865
But this would violate the principle, followed on all sides though never formulated, of cultural integrity. If Oceania were to conquer the areas that used once to be known as France and Germany, it would be necessary either to exterminate the inhabitants, a task of great physical difficulty, or to assimilate a population of about a hundred million people, who, so far as technical development goes, are roughly on the Oceanic level.
George Orwell -- 1984

integrity = an undivided completeness (where everyone is the same)

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