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Meanings of honest man in English

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Usage of honest man in English
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IRAQ: An honest man is arrested, tortured and imprisoned for many years.
The Irish Times
2
He carried good merchandise, priced fair, and he was an honest man.
The well and the mine
3
Could an honest man carry out such a procedure without warning me?
Camille
4
The American had been an honest man; his closest friend, the traitor.
Fatherland
5
Thoreau proposed that 'one honest man' could morally regenerate an entire society.
Ebony
6
You can always cheat an honest man, but it takes more work.
American Gods
7
The honest man will bear contradiction; because it gives rise to evidence.
The Ruins; Or, Meditation on the Revolutions of Empires and the ...
8
General Grant was, in every sense of the word, an honest man.
Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet / ...
9
Upon the honest man the condition of the safe has no effect.
The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Volume VIII. / Interviews
10
M. Tabareau is the most honest man in the quarter, you see.
Poor Relations
11
Mr Nally is a nice and honest man but he's past it.
The Irish Times
12
But Gazebee was a clear-headed, honest man; and he knew the countess.
The Small House at Allington
13
There is no such thing as an honest man in the world.
Vanity Fair
14
You are an honest man and faithful and devoted to your ideas.
His Excellency the Minister
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He was an honest man who did not deal in smooth phrases.
The Path of the King
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There was sufficient in what occurred to make an honest man angry.
The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders
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