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Honest
Honesty refers to a facet of moral character and connotes positive and virtuous attributes such as integrity, truthfulness, straightforwardness, including straightforwardness of conduct, along with the absence of lying, cheating, theft, etc. Honesty also involves being trustworthy, loyal, fair, and sincere.
Honesty is valued in many ethnic and religious cultures. “Honesty is the best policy” is a proverb of Benjamin Franklin, while the quote “Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom” is attributed to Thomas Jefferson, as used in a letter to Nathaniel Macon.
William Shakespeare famously describes honesty as an attribute people leave behind when he wrote that “no legacy is so rich as honesty” in act 3 scene 5 of “All’s Well that Ends Well.”
Others have noted, however, that “[t]oo much honesty might be seen as undisciplined openness”. For example, individuals may be perceived as being “too honest” if they honestly express the negative opinions of others, either without having been asked their opinion, or having been asked in a circumstance where the response would be trivial.
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Faithful (adjective)
Loyal; adhering firmly to person or cause.
“My dog is a very faithful dog: he doesn’t like to be petted by anybody else.”
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Faithful (adjective)
Having faith.
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Faithful (adjective)
Reliable; worthy of trust.
“My servant is very faithful.”
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Faithful (adjective)
Consistent with reality.
“I would consider that a very faithful reproduction.”
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Faithful (adjective)
Engaging in sexual relations only with one’s spouse or long-term sexual partner.
“They had been faithful to each other all of their married life.”
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Faithful (adjective)
(Injective in specific contexts, e.g. of representation or functors in category theory.
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Faithful (noun)
The practicing members of a religion or followers of a cause.
“The faithful pray five times a day.”
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Faithful (noun)
Someone or something that is faithful or reliable.
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Honest (adjective)
Scrupulous with regard to telling the truth; not given to swindling, lying, or fraud; upright.
“We’re the most honest people you will ever come across.”
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Honest (adjective)
True, especially as far as is known by the person making the statement; fair; unbiased.
“an honest account of events; honest reporting”
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Honest (adjective)
In good faith; without malice.
“an honest mistake”
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Honest (adjective)
Accurate.
“an honest scale”
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Honest (adjective)
Authentic; full.
“an honest day’s work”
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Honest (adjective)
Earned or acquired in a fair manner.
“an honest dollar”
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Honest (adjective)
Open; frank.
“an honest countenance”
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Honest (adjective)
Decent; honourable; suitable; becoming.
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Honest (adjective)
Chaste; faithful; virtuous.
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Honest (verb)
To adorn or grace; to honour; to make becoming, appropriate, or honourable.
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Honest (adverb)
Honestly; really.
“It wasn’t my fault, honest.”
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Faithful (adjective)
remaining loyal and steadfast
“the city has always been faithful to the Conservative party”
“employees who had notched up decades of faithful service”
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Faithful (adjective)
(of a spouse or partner) never having a sexual relationship with anyone else
“her husband was faithful to her”
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Faithful (adjective)
(of an object) reliable
“my faithful compass”
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Faithful (adjective)
true to the facts or the original
“the film was faithful to the book”
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Faithful (noun)
those who are faithful to a particular religion or political party
“a muezzin called the faithful to prayer”