[U] the quality of being honest:
She answered all my questions with her usual honesty. * His honesty is not in question.
IDIOMS
in all honesty used to state a fact or an opinion which, though true, may seem disappointing:
The book isn't, in all honesty, as good as I expected.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for honesty is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is honesty a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, honesty is tagged as noun.
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