honorable

Example Sentences

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Where are the sensible, honorable folks who possess the smarts and the backbone to craft a fair deal?

From Los Angeles Times

While I disagree with him on many matters, I’ve always regarded him as principled and honorable, so his response to these events doesn’t surprise me.

From The Wall Street Journal

Call me naive, but I still believe that keeping one’s word is always the honorable thing to do.

From Los Angeles Times

Everyone, regardless of their background or status, was expected to work, and manual labor was honorable.

From The Wall Street Journal

The report’s principal idea — that universities should not comment on political issues unless they threaten “the very mission of the university and its values of free inquiry” — read as honorable restraint in 1967.

From Salon