[responsivevoice]probity[/responsivevoice] [ proh-bi-tee ]
The word of the day is ‘probity’.
The word is a Noun, i.e., it is the main subject of a sentence.
No, the word is a noun. Therefore, it does not have a past form.
It means:
1. Fairness
2. Honesty
3. The quality of having strong moral principles; honesty and decency.
4. Integrity
1. To men of your intelligence and probity, these admonitions are, perhaps, unnecessary
2. He was touched by this easy and, as it were, natural display of probity.
3. I went to the comptroller, and trusting in his probity I explained my scheme to him.
4. In a few years, his unprincipled wife warped the probity of a lifetime.
5. I will write to him for a testimonial, at least to my probity and character.
Some synonyms of today’s word are:
integrity, morality, rectitude, righteousness, rightness, sincerity, trustworthiness, truthfulness, equity, fidelity, goodness, honor, justice, uprightness, virtue, worth, honesty, decency, morality, right-mindedness, honourableness, fairness, principle, ethics etc.
Some antonyms of this word of the day are:
corruption, dishonesty, dishonor, evil, partiality, unfairness, untrustworthiness etc.
Quotation:
The man Dickens, whom the world at large thought it knew, stood for all the Victorian virtues – probity, kindness, hard work, sympathy for the down-trodden, the sanctity of domestic life – even as his novels exposed the violence, hypocrisy, greed, and cruelty of the Victorian age.
Robert Gottlieb
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