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单词 honest-to-goodness
释义

honest /onˈist or -əst/

adjective
  1. Truthful
  2. Full of honour
  3. Honourable
  4. Just
  5. Fair-dealing
  6. Upright, upstanding
  7. The opposite of thieving
  8. Free from fraud or trickery
  9. Candid, frank
  10. Ingenuous
  11. Unpretentious
  12. Seemly
  13. Respectable (now patronizing)
  14. Chaste (archaic)
adverb

Honestly (informal)

ORIGIN: OFr honeste, from L honestus, from honor

honˈestly adverb

  1. In an honest way
  2. In truth
interjection

Expressing annoyance, disbelief, etc

honˈesty noun

  1. The state of being honest
  2. Integrity
  3. Candour, frankness, truthfulness
  4. A cruciferous garden plant (Lunaria biennis) with shining silver or satiny white dissepiments
  5. Decorum (obsolete)
  6. Chastity (Shakespeare)

honest broker noun

An impartial mediator in a dispute

honˈest-to-Godˈ or honˈest-to-goodˈness adjective

Genuine, out-and-out, complete (also adverb)

honesty bar noun

An unattended bar where patrons are expected to leave money to pay for their drinks

honesty box noun

A receptacle for money due for goods taken when no attendant is present

honest Injun (informal)

Upon my honour

make an honest woman of (now usu facetious)

To marry, where the woman has first been seduced

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