Example sentences for: honest

How can you use “honest” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Anyway, Bradley's answer was not really honest, even in this cynical sense.

  • "We should give them an honest answer: not if you keep asking these phony-baloney movie-of-the-week questions," she untidily failed to add.

  • The NYT says its phone poll of 1,058 adults suggests that the public views the impeachment process, not as an honest investigation of possible crimes committed by Bill Clinton but as a Republican drive to undermine him.

  • News and Newsweek advise on how to explain the seamy details to your kids (be honest yet elliptical; whatever you do, don't talk about the cigar).

  • In particular, huge sums are being invested abroad to establish overseas nest eggs for honest Hong Kong businessmen just in case Hong Kong ends up looking like the rest of China, and no doubt to establish similar nest eggs for corrupt Chinese officials just in case the rest of China ends up looking like Hong Kong.


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