honest - use in sentences

Preposition: as

  • day: Kevin Blackwell is as honest as the day is long.

Adjective complement with noun phrase

  • keep: It is not the BBC license fee which is keeping producers honest, but the realities of the bottom line.

Modifies a noun

  • broker: The Civic Trust's role as honest broker in creating these partnerships has been a key to their success.
  • guv: It was a binge drinker that spilled a drink on my jacket, honest guv!
  • appraisal: Where can I get an honest appraisal in the Southern California area?
  • opinion: You should either come to us for an honest opinion, or choose to give up & play golf instead.
  • mistake: Without written instructions it is difficult to know whether this was an honest mistake or deliberate on behalf of the patient.
  • answer: We'll the honest answer is I don't know!

Used with adjective complement

  • get: Well, sometimes I feel like it's an easy way for me to get honest.
  • feel: You could tell by their body postures and facial expressions, they found the discussion awkward, but the atmosphere felt honest.
  • offer: Meals Heal's 60 cover restaurant, master minded by Oliver Peyton, offers honest, simple food done well.

Infinitive complement

  • admit: Most will find themselves described somewhere in his pages if only they are honest enough to admit it.
  • say: The Liberal Democrats claim to be the only party honest enough to say that they will raise taxes to pay the bills.

Modifying Another Word

  • brutally: Helena: The biggest, to be brutally honest, is about 10 kilos.
  • refreshingly: They really took note of what we said and were refreshingly honest at times.
  • scrupulously: Thus, your main challenge is to be certain that you are being scrupulously honest with yourself as well as with others.
  • perfectly: To be perfectly honest, I didn't actually think we would get beyond the awkward calcite squeeze near the entrance.
  • painfully: Mfd & she do calcs & MfdJ are painfully honest over pipe: about 30.
  • totally: To be totally honest I haven't managed to stick to any diet in the past.

Preposition: from

  • start: I'll be honest from the start and admit... Continue reading " Come on you Blues!

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