Definition for Probity:

• Strict conformity of actions to the laws of justice; honesty; uprightness; integrity.

Synonyms for Probity:

• n.

  •
  • credibility,
  • transparency,
  • honor system,
  • openness,
  • good faith,
  • sportsmanship.
  •
  • right.
  •attribute (noun)
  • probity.
  •candor (noun)
  • glasnosts,
  • un-equivocalness,
  • unequivocalnesses,
  • un equivocalness,
  • straightforwardnesses,
  • up-rightness,
  • up rightnesses,
  • un equivocalnesses,
  • up-rightnesses,
  • directnesses,
  • guilelessnesses,
  • up rightness,
  • ingenuousnesses,
  • un-equivocalnesses,
  • forthrightnesses,
  • outspokennesses.
  •fairness, honesty (noun)
  • fidelity,
  • righteousness,
  • rightness,
  • worth,
  • justice.
  •good (noun)
  • virtuousness,
  • straights.
  •good name (noun)
  • re spect,
  • righteos,
  • re-spect,
  • re-spects,
  • re spects,
  • good-name.
  •goodness (noun)
  • graciousness,
  • obligingness,
  • wholesomeness,
  • ethicality,
  • humaneness.
  •good report (noun)
  • good-report,
  • righteouses.
  •honesty (noun)
  • evenhandednesses,
  • straightnesses,
  • selfrespect,
  • reputabilities,
  • self-respects,
  • trustworthinesses,
  • bluntnesses,
  • impeccabilities,
  • trustinesses,
  • self respect.
  •honor (noun)
  • in corruptions,
  • in-corruption,
  • in corruption,
  • in corruptness,
  • in-corruptness,
  • in corruptnesses,
  • honestnesses,
  • incorruptions,
  • in-corruptnesses,
  • incorruptnesses,
  • in-corruptions.
  •principle/principles (noun)
  • sense duty,
  • sense honor.
  •purity (noun)
  • guiltlessness,
  • cleanness,
  • spotlessness,
  • angelicness,
  • Elementariness,
  • innocence,
  • honorableness,
  • chastity,
  • blamelessness,
  • purity,
  • whiteness,
  • sinlessness,
  • immaculateness,
  • essentiality,
  • fundamentality,
  • Aboriginality,
  • decency,
  • faultlessness.
  •respectability (noun)
  • law-abidingness,
  • right-mindedness,
  • Estimableness,
  • creditability,
  • irreproachability,
  • fairness,
  • unimpeachability,
  • respectability,
  • nobility.
  •sincerity (noun)
  • sincerenesses,
  • bona fideses,
  • wholeheartednesses.
  •veracity (noun)
  • straight stuff,
  • veridicality,
  • veraciousness,
  • honest-to-god truth.
  •virtue (noun)
  • ethics,
  • valor,
  • high-mindedness,
  • merit,
  • heroism,
  • pureness.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • uprightness.
  •
  • character.
  •honesty
  • veracity.

Paraphrases for Probity:

• Independent

  • Noun, singular or mass
    propriety, credibility, Inviolability.

• Other Related

  • Noun, singular or mass
    integrity, honesty, sincerity, trustworthiness, fairness, decency.

Antonyms for Probity:

• n.

  • fairness, honesty
    unfairness, dishonor, deceit, evil, partiality, corruption, dishonesty.
  • Other antonyms:
    pervertedness, immorality, cunning, vileness, two-facedness, oiliness, trickery, roguishness, lowness, smoothness, wretchedness, dissoluteness, falsity, exaggeration, lying, disgracefulness, indiscretion, baseness, looseness, artifice, wickedness, insidiousness, disgrace, corruptibility, degradation, hypocrisy, impropriety, slyness, indecorum, indirection, underhandedness, dissipatedness, corruptness, knavery, meanness, sinfulness, debasement, rascality, degeneracy, falseness, unrighteousness, disreputableness, perfidy, blameworthiness, rottenness, unscrupulousness, slipperiness, badness, indecency, reprehensibleness, criminality, prevarication, dissipation, inaccuracy, vice, slickness, venality, decadence, furtiveness, viciousness, guile, beguilement, perversion, shamelessness, equivocation, wrong, treacherousness.

Probity Sentence Examples:

• Confident that Mr. Jefferson's astuteness, erudition, and probity would make a powerful impression upon those whom it was so much to our interest to attach to us, Congress had, on the 7th day of May, 1784, appointed him Minister Plenipotentiary for the negotiation of foreign commercial treaties.

• He distinguished between Emmet the mayor and Emmet the lover; for he was familiar with the phenomenon of official probity combined with a lack of that quality in some personal relationship.

Hyponym for Probity:

• n.

  • attribute
    integrity.