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Meanings of aboveboard in English

Portuguese
honestamente

In an honest manner.

honestamente

Without concealment or deception; honest.

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Examples for "honestly"
1
However, I could answer the question, I could even answer it honestly.
An ordinary decent criminal
2
Nor need we shrink from honestly facing conditions in our country today.
The Guardian
3
Answer me one question honestly, and I will answer one of yours.
The Golem and the Jinni
4
Companies typically trust employees to report their tobacco use honestly, says Jepsen.
Reuters
5
A trustworthy adviser will answer your questions honestly without side-stepping the issue.
Ebony
Usage of aboveboard in English
1
You see, I play aboveboard; I am strong enough to speak frankly.
The Companions of Jehu
2
Google hasn't been entirely aboveboard about how it tweaks its search algorithms.
Wired
3
Manager says VanHorn is in Room 203, but insists it's all aboveboard.
Running scared
4
The friendly host kept his jokes aboveboard and non-offensive during the monologue.
News.com.au
5
It's more open and aboveboard here; more up to the individual.
North of Fifty-Three
6
Mr. B. has a fairly good business here; his transactions open and aboveboard.
Jane Cable
7
Ninety-nine per cent of the young men are earnest, honest and wholly aboveboard.
Dave Darrin's First Year at Annapolis / Two Plebe Midshipmen at ...
8
He would even be grateful to us for having been strong-minded and aboveboard.
We Three
9
Rufus Venner was attending to his business as usual, and appeared all aboveboard.
With Links of Steel; Or, The Peril of the Unknown
10
I have never known him to do anything that wasn't straight and aboveboard.
Nan Sherwood at Palm Beach; Or, Strange Adventures Among The Ora...
11
Did they really have a golden business, upright and aboveboard?
A colossal failure of common sense: the inside story of the coll...
12
Elsewhere, the meaning is shifting to describe aboveboard financial consultants.
Woken furies
13
Tribute was the name the Moors gave their robbery, which was open and aboveboard.
Marse Henry (Volume 2) / An Autobiography
14
I want to play aboveboard, after all that's gone down.
Envoy
15
She docks alongside the sailboat just as MARK comes aboveboard.
This is where we live
16
You are making something very mysterious out of what should be open and aboveboard.
Blow The Man Down: A Romance Of The Coast
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honestamente
Aboveboard through the time
Aboveboard across language varieties
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