{
    "term": "honesty",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "b2",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "the quality of being honest",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "She answered all my questions with her usual honesty."
                },
                {
                    "text": "His honesty is not in question."
                },
                {
                    "text": "‘Don't you love me?’ ‘I don't know,’ she said with brutal honesty."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Are you questioning my honesty?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He has the honesty and integrity to be chairman."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I always expect total honesty from my employees."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I appreciate your honesty about this."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She answered the questions with complete honesty."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She had the honesty to admit her mother was right."
                },
                {
                    "text": "You need ruthless intellectual honesty about your own skills, weaknesses and motives."
                },
                {
                    "text": "At least he had the honesty to admit he was wrong."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She prided herself on her honesty."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They have a reputation for scrupulous honesty."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Personal qualities"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["absolute", "complete", "total"],
                "verb + honesty": ["admire", "appreciate", "value"],
                "preposition": ["with honesty", "honesty  about"],
                "phrases": ["honesty and integrity", "in all honesty", "in honesty"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "used to state a fact or an opinion that, though true, may seem disappointing",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The book isn't, in all honesty, as good as I expected."
                },
                {
                    "text": "In all honesty, the book was not as good as I expected."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Who in honesty can blame her?"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Opinion and argument"]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈɒnəsti/",
                "audio": "ho/honesty/honesty__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈɑːnəsti/",
                "audio": "ho/honesty/honesty__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Middle English: from Old French honeste, from Latin honestas, from honestus, from honos, honor. The original sense was ‘honour, respectability’, later ‘decorum, virtue, chastity’."
}