How To Use Probity In A Sentence
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The gentleman next in esteem and authority among us is another bachelor, who is a member of the Inner Temple, a man of great probity, wit, and understanding; but he has chosen his place of residence rather to obey the direction of an old humorsome father than in pursuit of his own inclinations.
The Spectator Club
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The fact that she is pressurised and hectically busy is no excuse, and the usual tribal claims that she is brilliant at her job should not be weighed in the balance where her wisdom - if not probity - is in question.
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The public would also welcome an effective system of oversight of ethics, probity and competence.
Times, Sunday Times
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A growing public morality and probity based on notions of charity and human regard should not be traduced by slurs such as ‘political correctness’, with implicit support for an official ‘incorrectness’.
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The ruling party has distorted the history of the liberation struggle in this country beyond fiction, bigotry and improbity.
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Her personal probity is unblemished.
Times, Sunday Times
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It encourages probity and it exposes wrongdoing.
Times, Sunday Times
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in a world where financial probity may not be widespread
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Probity and purity will command respect everywhere.
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His lofty status and probity allow him to ensure I'm used in certain soccer matches.
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Just as Hugh Hefner relied on censorious foes to elevate his stature, Sports Illustrated has cultivated its own opposition to enhance its probity; the magazine is sporting about its own critics.
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Apart, however, from the immorality of such reasoned hypocrisy, which no man with a particle of honesty will attempt to blink, there is the intellectual improbity which it brings in its train, the infidelity to truth, the disloyalty to one's own intelligence.
On Compromise
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Brace yourself, for this is a rare tale of integrity and probity in business.
Times, Sunday Times
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Continued from page 1 the language of morality was a way to restore virtues such as probity and integrity.
Times, Sunday Times
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In the capital of the empire the Taoist priesthood includes: two Tao-lu-sze, superiors, a title corresponding with that of the Buddhists, seng-lu-sze; two Cheng-i, Taoists of right simplicity; two Yen-fa, ritual Taoists; two Che-ling, Taoists of great excellence, thaumaturgus; and two Che-i, Taoists of great probity, an inferior class of priests.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
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he enjoys an exaggerated reputation for probity
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The maintenance of his fragile coalition caused Namaliu further difficulties in 1990 and compromised his own considerable reputation for integrity and probity.
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Now the big question is how to curb the canker of corruption and restore much needed probity in public life.
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It appoints auditors for local authorities to ensure probity and promotes improvements in economy, efficiency and effectiveness.
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In Shakespeare, probity is the possession of stout-hearted simpletons, such as Florizel, Bassanio, and Duke Orsino.
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For the flipside of golf's commitment to moral probity is an equally strong commitment to condemn those who fail to live up to its commendably high standards.
Times, Sunday Times
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Her probity and integrity are beyond question.
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He writes so well; with historical understanding and moral probity.
Times, Sunday Times
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Not only have the American Right, once the keepers of fiscal probity, turned around, but also there is some muddled local thinking.
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Probity and purity will command respect everywhere.
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The City in particular has been revealed to be a place of probity and honour whose accountants couldn't be more different from the vulgar and grasping Yanks.
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Since he first gained national prominence 25 years ago as an earnest left-wing firebrand, his name has been a byword for probity and decency.
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City's contempt for authorcraft and the intangible as, from its point of view, justly founded, she had mixed her dream strangely with an ancient notion of the City's probity.
Diana of the Crossways — Volume 4
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It encourages probity and it exposes wrongdoing.
Times, Sunday Times
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In Shakespeare, probity is the possession of stout-hearted simpletons, such as Florizel, Bassanio, and Duke Orsino.
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His is a prose that almost palpably exudes probity and decency (a very Orwellian word, that), while his political trajectory - from disaffected Etonian schoolboy, to disaffected imperial policeman, to disaffected dallier in the pays-bas of the Depression, to convinced socialist warrior, to disaffected socialist and anti-communist whistle-blower - also speaks to us of a probity and decency, which all too often seems absent from our mercenary, venal and debauched age.
Jura Duty
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This they seem to regard as a mighty temple of moral probity and rhetorical genius.
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Few of us are so robust in probity as to be unwarped by hatred or fear.
The Times Literary Supplement
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They will learn probity and goodness, and it will not be ferruled into them either.
The Aldine, Vol. 5, No. 1., January, 1872 A Typographic Art Journal
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Yet here too there is the stain of intellectual improbity, and it is perhaps all the more mischievous for being partly hidden under the mien of spiritual exaltation.
On Compromise
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It is the keenest spur to exertion and the surest of all guards against improbity.
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Her probity and integrity are beyond question.
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This is a deeply unappealing message for Europe's champions of fiscal probity to swallow.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Qur'an does not clearly define any of these categories, but presumes a certain amount of moral probity on part of the reader.
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I must point out that all the allegations made are without foundation and I have acted at all times with the upmost probity.
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It appoints auditors for local authorities to ensure probity and promotes improvements in economy, efficiency and effectiveness.
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The many achievements of Scottish insurance companies are witness to the talent within them and the high standards of integrity and probity they employ.
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Enterprise style: speak honestly , conduct practically, rapid and efficient. Managercharacter: loyalty , honesty, probity, dare speak.
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They'should always behave with probity and integrity '.
Times, Sunday Times
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Cazaril approached his first assigned duty, quietly investigating the probity of the provincial justiciar, with trepidation.
THE CURSE OF CHALION
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‘She does not accept red envelopes or construction kickbacks, indeed, never commits any form of improbity,’ he said.
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The game introduce: So PL MM, really would not like to believe she is the improbity angel.
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Nor is gender or ethnicity any guarantee of altruism, probity or intelligence.
Times, Sunday Times
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If to recall good deeds erewhiles performed be pleasure to a man, when he knows himself to be of probity, nor has violated sacred faith, nor has abused the holy assent of the gods in any pact, to work ill to men; great store of joys awaits thee during thy length of years, O Catullus, sprung from this ingrate love of thine.
The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus
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Diana had often dreamed of the City of London as the seat of magic; and taking the City's contempt for authorcraft and the intangible as, from its point of view, justly founded, she had mixed her dream strangely with an ancient notion of the City's probity.
Diana of the Crossways — Complete
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The interspersion of artworks with two classes of text distinguished the Chicago exhibition and indexed its probity, even bookishness, in the most positive sense.
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We are pressed by our very nature into the service of virtue; our souls are up in arms against vice and improbity, and thus we receive lasting impressions, which, when our hearts are not very corrupt, must forever after have a favourable influence on our moral conduct.
The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 1
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“Envy,” it has been said, “permits every one to be the panegyrist of his own probity, but not of his own wit.”
A Philosophical Dictionary
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The maintenance of his fragile coalition caused Namaliu further difficulties in 1990 and compromised his own considerable reputation for integrity and probity.
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In the capital of the empire the Taoist priesthood includes: two Tao-lu-sze, superiors, a title corresponding with that of the Buddhists, seng-lu-sze; two Cheng-i, Taoists of right simplicity; two Yen-fa, ritual Taoists; two Che-ling, Taoists of great excellence, thaumaturgus; and two Che-i, Taoists of great probity, an inferior class of priests.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
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Briefly, in this man of culture and refinement, in whose own mysterious life one might perhaps have found various crimes but not a single act of base improbity, one could divine an implacable, obstinate theoretician, who was resolved to set the world ablaze for the triumph of his ideas.
The Three Cities Trilogy: Paris, Complete
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Forget a mortgage, forget financial probity.
Times, Sunday Times
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On the part of those on whom they operate, they are indicative either of improbity or intellectual weakness, or of a contempt for the understanding of those on whose minds they are indicative of intellectual weakness; and on the part of those in and by whom they are pretended to operate, they are indicative of improbity, viz., in the shape of insincerity.
Fallacies of Anti-Reformers
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Central to the Vichy vision, she argues, was the eternal female, ever supportive, fertile, and pure, in a timeless social and moral order where women were mothers, the helpmates of men, and guardians of moral probity.
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The hypocrite is a good example for other people, a model of probity and decorum, at least until the truth comes out.
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It is the keenest spur to exertion, and surest of all guards against improbity.
Times, Sunday Times
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He asserted his innocence and his financial probity.
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We need to apply the same standards of probity and integrity to all employees.
Times, Sunday Times
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Beelzebub" had been floundering in the sea of improbity, holding by a slender life-line to the respectable world that had cast him overboard.
Cabbages and Kings
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We want all persons in Bahamian public life to act with probity, decorum, honesty and forthrightness.
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Even as Western financial firms disrepute , banks in emerging markets are treated as paragons of probity.
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Persons generally who were under no incapacity could make a will; those prohibited were such as had some defect of status, some vice or defect of mind, or even some sufficient defect of body, and those guilty of crime or improbity.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy
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With one, her reputation for chastity and probity was at its height, while the other was embroiled in rumour and vicious innuendo.
ELIZABETH AND MARY: Cousins, Rivals, Queens
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I have always found Bentner to be a model of probity in our dealings.
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Theologically, Puritanism represents an emphasis within the Reformed Protestant (Calvinist) tradition on intense personal devotion and extreme ethical probity.
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It had a peculiar sensitivity to certain stimuli, and he felt a sensation in its roots whenever he encountered prevarication, deception, or any degree of improbity.
The Cat Who Moved A Mountain
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Howat was hot and cold, and possessed by a subtle sense of improbity, a feeling resembling that of a doubtful advance through the dark, for a questionable end.
The Three Black Pennys A Novel
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The boundary between probity and fraud was much more difficult to draw in this area.
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Both shamefully used social division to their electoral advantage pursuing a governing style which corrodes probity and accountability.
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With one, her reputation for chastity and probity was at its height, while the other was embroiled in rumour and vicious innuendo.
ELIZABETH AND MARY: Cousins, Rivals, Queens
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Probity and purity will command respect everywhere.
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It appoints auditors for local authorities to ensure probity and promotes improvements in economy, efficiency and effectiveness.
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The maintenance of his fragile coalition caused Namaliu further difficulties in 1990 and compromised his own considerable reputation for integrity and probity.
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The cry of 'Clo'-pole-line-pins' is one long familiar to the neighbourhood; and as this honest couple have earned a good reputation by a long course of civility and probity, they enjoy the advantage of a pretty extensive connection.
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 448 Volume 18, New Series, July 31, 1852
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The reality is, as the Sunday Times points out, that not only is being sacked from a Labour Government all but impossible, if it does happen there is immediate solace available to all, regardless of competence, probity or any thing else you might care to name.
Stop The Gravy Train, I Want To Get On!
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The boundary between probity and fraud was much more difficult to draw in this area.
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Does Scotland deserve to lose its reputation for financial probity?
Times, Sunday Times