aboveboard
Example Sentences
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I just want to make sure everything is aboveboard and done properly.
From MarketWatch • Feb. 13, 2026
He and his colleagues have instead designed an aboveboard playbook for reducing tariffs.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 31, 2025
"China never interferes in other countries' internal affairs and always acts in an open and aboveboard manner," the Chinese embassy in London has previously said.
From BBC • Oct. 29, 2025
Shy’s employment history is largely aboveboard, but he’s done things for money that by his own admission are inexcusably vile.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 28, 2024
Gies & Co. still had some unaccounted-for thousand-guilder bills, which they used to pay their estimated taxes for the coming years, so everything seems to be aboveboard.
From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank
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