Sample Sentences forprobity (editor-reviewed)
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The judge's probity was unquestionable, having served thirty years on the bench without a hint of corruption or bias.probity = honesty and moral integrity
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Her probity in business dealings earned the trust and respect of competitors and clients alike.
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She earned tiny sums, but worked with as much probity as if she were being paid thousands. (source)probity = strict honesty and integrity
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Unless you doubt my probity? (source)probity = honesty and moral integrity
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It was my first time in Amsterdam; I'd seen almost nothing of the city and yet the room itself, in its bleak, drafty, sunscrubbed beauty, gave a keen sense of Northern Europe, a model of the Netherlands in miniature: whitewash and Protestant probity, co-mingled with deep-dyed luxury brought in merchant ships from the East. (source)probity = moral integrity
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They cast aspersions upon the probity of those who authorized incarnation. (source)
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I had admired his journals inordinately, and had considered Gide's probity and relentless self-dissection to be part of one of the truly triumphant feats of the civilized twentieth-century mind. (source)probity = honesty and moral integrity
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Adams believed his strongest attributes were, as he said, "candor, probity, and decision," but these he failed to find in the face that looked back from the finished canvas, and he expressed disappointment. (source)probity = moral integrity
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In the early morning the sun threw my shadow westward as I hurried down the white chasms of lower New York to the Probity Trust.† (source)Probity = a name based upon the qualities of honesty and moral integrity
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"Ah, Probity Probes," signed Travers theatrically, "so crude-but so effective!"† (source)
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She undersold him so relentlessly and delivered, with secret groans, such an excellent quality of lumber to prove her probity that he was soon bankrupt.† (source)
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Mr. Bingley does not know the whole of his history, and is quite ignorant of the circumstances which have principally offended Mr. Darcy; but he will vouch for the good conduct, the probity, and honor of his friend, and is perfectly convinced that Mr. Wickham has deserved much less attention from Mr. Darcy than he has received; and I am sorry to say by his account as well as his sister's, Mr. Wickham is by no means a respectable young man.† (source)
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The buccaneer on the wave might relinquish his calling and become at once if he chose, a man of probity and piety on land; nor, even in the full career of his reckless life, was he regarded as a personage with whom it was disreputable to traffic or casually associate.† (source)
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VINEY: Oh, we glad to have you back too, probity.† (source)
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Golz, he thought in a mixture of horror and exultation as a man might feel hearing that a business enemy had been killed in a particularly nasty motor accident or that some one you hated but whose probity you had never doubted had been guilty of defalcation.† (source)
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Why, I believe Sir Ector would have been gladder to get a by-our-lady tilting blue for your tutor, that swings himself along on his knuckles like an anthropoid ape, rather than a magician of known probity and international reputation with first-class honours from every European university.† (source)
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