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How to use probity in a sentence

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But he read enough garbage to sink his reputation for probity and solidness.
The hypocrite is a good example for other people, a model of probity and decorum, at least until the truth comes out.
That he should be removed from a post whose primary requisites are probity and even-handedness for displaying these qualities is insupportable.
Not only have the American Right, once the keepers of fiscal probity, turned around, but also there is some muddled local thinking.
In Shakespeare, probity is the possession of stout-hearted simpletons, such as Florizel, Bassanio, and Duke Orsino.
Both shamefully used social division to their electoral advantage pursuing a governing style which corrodes probity and accountability.
Now the big question is how to curb the canker of corruption and restore much needed probity in public life.
We want all persons in Bahamian public life to act with probity, decorum, honesty and forthrightness.
The Qur'an does not clearly define any of these categories, but presumes a certain amount of moral probity on part of the reader.
This they seem to regard as a mighty temple of moral probity and rhetorical genius.
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.
I must point out that all the allegations made are without foundation and I have acted at all times with the upmost probity.
Rights and freedoms are guaranteed by the dignity of the judiciary and the probity and impartiality of the judges.
Theologically, Puritanism represents an emphasis within the Reformed Protestant tradition on intense personal devotion and extreme ethical probity.
The fact is OSFI conducted itself in this case, as it always does, with utmost probity.
The many achievements of Scottish insurance companies are witness to the talent within them and the high standards of integrity and probity they employ.
But there she is incontrovertibly, her presence exerting a more far-reaching duration owing to the famous probity of Cézanne.
The Schengen Agreement is a catastrophe for probity, but who has created Schengen?
However, it is conscious that it has an obligation to manage these additional resources with prudence and probity.
As a result, popular participation in elections as well as the probity of school administration cannot help but be strengthened.
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I will write to him for a testimonial, at least to my probity and character.
Mr. Burnet describes him as remarkable for amenity as for probity and learning.
To men of your intelligence and probity, these admonitions are, perhaps, unnecessary.
I would fain learn if generosity is united to impetuousness, probity of spirit to his assumption of singularity and independence.
The lancer made the pleased grimace of Cartouche when praised for his probity.
The faithful driver, who had given such proofs of probity, continued to be of great service, and was put in perpetual requisition.
I went to the comptroller, and trusting in his probity, I explained my scheme to him.
And yet it first arouses our suspicion of the probity and reality of Gorki's types.
However I might be disposed to trust his probity, I dare not trust his prejudices.
I am rejoiced to hear you speak of Monsieur d'Emery as calculated for a post which requires a man of probity.
Yet once on the trail, so to speak, he is probity personified.
He was touched by this easy and, as it were, natural display of probity.
In a few years his unprincipled wife warped the probity of a lifetime.
I've never earned a hand-out with more dignified probity, sir.
He was a man of chivalrous instincts and unchallenged probity.
I urge this not because I doubt the moral probity of those who disburse the funds, but because I know that they are not rightly applied.
He's a tres galant homme of absolute probity, even with himself.
In this respect, Joseph of Nazareth resembles the patriarch Joseph, who maintained his own moral probity and good character in the house of Potiphar, captain of the guard.
William Penn was termed Minquon by the Delawares, and, as he never used violence or injustice in his dealings with them, his reputation for probity passed into a proverb.
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