HONEST

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honest adjectiv

1. onest, prob, integru, corect, cinstit, de treabă, de bună credinţă; drept; sincer; (despre prietenie, prieteni) fidel, credincios; onorabil, virtuos, cinstit, cumsecade (din punctul de vedere al moralităţii);

to make / to turn an honest penny a câştiga un ban cinstit / o pâine, a trăi cinstit;

as honest a man as ever broke bread / as ever lived by bread / as ever trod on earth, as honest as the skin between his brows omul cel mai cinstit din lume, un om de o cinste ireproşabilă;

(amer. fam.) honest Injun! pe cuvânt! zău! să mor eu!

2. autentic, veritabil, adevărat, nefalsificat, nemăsluit.

3. (despre caracter) sincer, franc, deschis.

4. (înv.) decent, cuviincios.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

“Didn't I know?” cried I, “didn't I say that there was not a joy, or sorrow, or any emotion of such honest hearts that was indifferent to you?”

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

The honest hands—and I was soon to see it proved that there were such on board—must have been very stupid fellows.

(Treasure Island, de Robert Louis Stevenson)

Just be a simple, honest, respectable boy, and we'll never desert you.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

Why don't you go to work an' earn an honest livin', eh?

(Martin Eden, de Jack London)

Well, I am an honest man, though not a very rich one.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He looks around him then for some tried fighting man, some honest smiter who can give a blow or take one.

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“No, indeed,” was Catherine's honest assurance; “Mr. Allen's dining-parlour was not more than half as large,” and she had never seen so large a room as this in her life.

(Northanger Abbey, de Jane Austen)

I have a much greater respect for those that are honest and rich.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

That proves you must have been an honest and faithful servant.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

He was an honest man, and a good sailor, but a little too positive in his own opinions, which was the cause of his destruction, as it has been with several others; for if he had followed my advice, he might have been safe at home with his family at this time, as well as myself.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, de Jonathan Swift)

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