Synonyms and Antonyms of probity
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conduct that conforms to an accepted standard of right and wrong
- a person of indisputable probity must head the disciplinary panel
character, decency, goodness, honesty, integrity, morality, rectitude, righteousness, rightness, uprightness, virtue, virtuousness
high-mindedness, honor, incorruptibility, irreproachability, irreproachableness, right-mindedness, scrupulosity, scrupulousness
appropriateness, correctness, decorousness, decorum, etiquette, fitness, propriety, seemliness
ethics, morals
impropriety, indecency, indecorum, indiscretion
debauchery, degeneracy, degradation, depravity, perversion, pervertedness, sinfulness
crookedness, dishonesty, underhandedness, unscrupulousness
lowness, meanness, viciousness, vileness
corruption
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devotion to telling the truth
- the defense attorney questioned the probity of the witness
honor, honorableness, incorruptibility, rectitude, righteousness, right-mindedness, scrupulosity, scrupulousness, uprightness
artlessness, candidness, candor, forthrightness, frankness, good faith, guilelessness, ingenuousness, plainspokenness, sincerity, straightforwardness
dependability, reliability, reliableness, trustability, trustiness, trustworthiness
accuracy, objectivity
authenticity, correctness, genuineness, truth
credibility
artifice, cozenage, crookedness, deception, dissembling, dissimulation, double-dealing, dupery, duplicity, fakery, falseness, falsity, fraudulentness, hypocrisy, insincerity, two-facedness
beguilement, craftiness, cunning, cunningness, furtiveness, guile, indirection, insidiousness, oiliness, perfidy, slickness, slipperiness, slyness, smoothness, treacherousness, trickery, underhandedness, unscrupulousness, wiliness
equivocation, prevarication
exaggeration, inaccuracy
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faithfulness to high moral standards
- ideals of fairness and probity in journalism
blamelessness, character, conscientiousness, decency, fairness, high-mindedness, incorruptibility, irreproachability, irreproachableness, justice, morality, nobility, reputability, respectability, right-mindedness, scru
