honourably

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Honesty, openness & sincerity
above board
anti-corruption
artless
artlessly
artlessness
earnest
honestly
in all honesty/seriousness/truthfulnessidiom
in good faithidiom
integrity
joking apart/asideidiom
let's face itidiom
sincerely
stainless
straight arrowidiom
straight upidiom
straightforward
the straight and narrowidiom
transparency
upright

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Reputation
Honourable
adjective
UK(USHonorable)uk /ˈɒn.ər.ə.bəl/ us /ˈɑː.nɚ.ə.bəl/(abbreviationHon.)
 the Honourable
a title used before the name of some government officials, and in the UK before the names of some people of high social rank: （用于某些政府官员或英国贵族的名字之前）尊敬的
the Honourable Andrew Robinson尊敬的安德鲁‧罗宾逊阁下
the Honorable Daniel P. Moynihan of New York来自纽约的尊敬的丹尼尔‧P.莫伊尼汉阁下

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Royalty, aristocracy & titles
accede to something
accession
anointed
anti-monarchical
anti-monarchist
duke
dukedom
earl
earldom
emir
mister
monarch
monarchist
morganatic
Mr
royally
Rt. Hon.
Shah
sheikh
sire

Examples of honourable

honourable
The integrity of his ' faith ' was central to a soldier's, as to a gentleman's, sense of himself as honourable.
It is of course honourable for a researcher to keep personal opinions at bay, but that is simply not completely possible.
If he'd said 'to me and my honourable friends', he might have got away with it.
To have too many animals from herds outside the lineage is, however, not an honourable situation regardless of the herd's size.
The more honourable course also has implicit in it the concept of masculinity upheld by the male populace.
However, such an altruistic and honourable motive alone could hardly stand the scrutiny of the various foreign audiences.
As meticulously courteous as he was logical, he suffered in a world where not all were as honourable in those respects as he was.
Schaeffer was not the last to accept this point, despite having honourable conscientious problems about it.
But they required that the transfer of power be unhurried, orderly, and honourable.
What may be considered less honourable and what may be considered more honourable.
Moreover, such a recognition may well suggest something more 'honourable'.
Histories of conservation in the built environment have a long and honourable tradition, almost as long as the history of conservation itself.
While courage was intrinsically honourable, admirable, and exemplary, it should also be functional.
Older people are almost ancestors : they are about to join the honourable ranks of the matrilineal forbears to whom people pray and pour libations.
Giving and enjoying, then, are the most honourable ways of disposing of one's wealth.
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