How to Use probity in a Sentence

probity

noun
  • Even for Linda Sarsour, who is not known for her moral probity.
    — Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, 7 Sep. 2017
  • Trump is growing lonely in his protestations of his own probity.
    — Dana Milbank, The Mercury News, 9 June 2017
  • Politicians and lawyers are not always known for their probity, but journalists have fact-checkers.
    — Yair Rosenberg, The Atlantic, 21 Jan. 2024
  • That speaks to Johnson’s probity and integrity.
    — Mark Barabak, Mercury News, 1 May 2026
  • That speaks to Johnson’s probity and integrity.
    — Los Angeles Times, 26 Apr. 2026
  • The idea has support that extends well beyond those fixated on fiscal probity.
    — The Economist, 30 Sep. 2017
  • With the bureau’s probity questioned by Gohmert and others, Comey sprang to the defense.
    — Bethany McLean, The Hive, 19 June 2017
  • Yet by asserting his commitment to fiscal probity, Lindner managed to have his cake and eat it too.
    — Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 30 Sep. 2022
  • The charges further damage the image of the former prime minister, who used to tout his reputation for probity.
    — Philippe Sotto, Orange County Register, 14 Mar. 2017
  • There are questions of law and questions of decency, and even those who skirt the outer limits of the law attempt to keep up an appearance of probity.
    — Andrew Solomon, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2024
  • Like Newsom himself, the LAO is striking a note of fiscal probity.
    — The Editorial Board, Orange County Register, 2 Dec. 2019
  • That is akin to a spam email or another type of spoof that has a modest impact on the market and does not raise questions about the probity of the financial system.
    — Peter J. Henning, New York Times, 26 Sep. 2017
  • Some try to project themselves as energetic and compassionate, others as wise and possessed of probity.
    — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 31 Jan. 2018
  • God will determine and finally judge the probity of my perceptions and gauge their worth from His all-knowing perspective.
    — James Ellroy, Vanities, 7 Oct. 2017
  • Waterston takes on the traditional horror-movie heroine role -- the good woman who must face down the monster -- with a probity that transcends the cliche.
    — The New York Times, NOLA.com, 19 May 2017
  • Her blunt, understated way of talking about incomprehensible data gives her an air of probity.
    — The New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2021
  • For many Pakistanis, his reputation for personal probity sets him apart from his money-grubbing peers.
    — Sadanand Dhume, WSJ, 12 July 2018
  • The nationalist leader known for personal probity planned to give huge tracts of farmland to an Indian guru.
    — Gavin Evans, Quartz, 17 June 2021
  • Not, in my view, out of malice or partisanship (although his self-righteousness about his own probity does occasionally grate).
    — Charles Krauthammer, Twin Cities, 14 May 2017
  • Subjecting him to questions in the Commons is also an effective way to keep him aware of his public obligations and the demands of probity.
    — WSJ, 1 Oct. 2020
  • Speaking to the Guardian, FitzGerald dismissed the notion that his father, who was widely known for his probity, would make a claim for payment.
    — Abid Rahman, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 June 2024
  • The trouble was that Giuliani was cashing in on a reputation for honesty and probity with unseemly avidity.
    — Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2022
  • Perhaps most significant—in the climactic moment of the initial draft, the narrator, in a flash of moral probity, chose not to throw the brick through this woman’s window.
    — Cressida Leyshon, The New Yorker, 12 June 2023
  • In the late 1950s, there was no war to protest against, but there was a policy called in loco parentis, which put school administrators in charge of moral probity.
    — Steven Levy, Wired, 5 Jan. 2021
  • After suffering a historic default, Argentina may end up being a model of financial probity.
    — The Christian Science Monitor, 25 Oct. 2017
  • Intriguingly, though, such personal probity is not reflected in people’s expectations of their fellow men and women.
    — The Economist, 22 June 2019
  • Which, regardless of what Garland says about investigative probity, thoroughly complicates the work of both special counsels.
    — Dan Balz, Washington Post, 14 Jan. 2023
  • The Covid mass hysteria, now downgraded to a hypnosis bewitching neurotics and power freaks, counts among its casualties such virtues as restraint and probity.
    — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 19 Feb. 2022
  • But many of India’s actually profitable firms are relative models of probity, observers say, even in the go-go context of the Indian market.
    — Alex Travelli, New York Times, 11 Feb. 2023
  • As Biden’s attempt to enact his domestic agenda drags on, his plunging approval numbers suggest that showmanship, for now, is outperforming probity.
    — David Rohde, The New Yorker, 27 Oct. 2021

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