How to Use aboveboard in a Sentence

aboveboard

adjective

• The committee tried to be fair and aboveboard in its hiring.
• She acted in a completely open and aboveboard way.
• The only way to reach your goal is through hard work and being honest and aboveboard.
  — Jeraldine Saunders, The Mercury News, 13 May 2017
• They are given housing and jobs—as cooks or maître d’s in the restaurant, perhaps—to help them build skills for aboveboard life.
  — Nathan Heller, The New Yorker, 25 May 2020
• Starting this summer, the state could be able to identify all aboveboard cannabis.
  — Matt Allyn, Popular Mechanics, 15 May 2018
• That means aboveboard teams are looking for players without breaking the rules.
  — Mike Hutton, chicagotribune.com, 28 Apr. 2018
• That type of crime-solving approach would be an aboveboard use of self-driving cars as an aid in crimefighting.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 12 June 2021
• Of course, quid pro quo arrangements are aboveboard when the President is asking for a favor on behalf of the people.
  — Neal Katyal and Sam Koppelman, Time, 7 Nov. 2019
• His defense lawyers maintained the transactions were all aboveboard.
  — Kim Chandler, Star Tribune, 11 Sep. 2020
• All of my client’s business with the congressman or any other client has been legitimate and aboveboard.
  — Jeremy Roebuck, Philly.com, 25 Oct. 2017
• For many Democrats and environmental groups, Zinke’s aboveboard actions are just as alarming.
  — Umair Irfan, Vox, 5 Nov. 2018
• Analysts said the prime minister needed to put the issue to rest and to reassure the public that Singapore’s government was fair-minded and aboveboard.
  — Richard C. Paddock, The Seattle Times, 4 July 2017
• While Moore and another Brady campaign aide have pleaded guilty, both Smukler and the congressman contend that the transaction was entirely aboveboard.
  — Jeremy Roebuck, Philly.com, 6 Feb. 2018
• But such operatives, who pursue their clients’ goals through a variety of methods—some entirely aboveboard, others less so—do exist.
  — Ben Widdicombe, Town & Country, 18 Jan. 2019
• These traveling shows are aboveboard: Russia has no laws that regulate how marine mammals should be treated in captivity.
  — Natasha Daly, National Geographic, 12 June 2019
• Unless some of the funds paid to Essential Consultants made their way back to Trump (a not wholly implausible scenario), Cohen’s lobbying career was likely aboveboard.
  — Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, 11 May 2018
• Many people suspect that not all of the president’s dealings with foreign creditors were aboveboard — including, by all appearances, the president himself.
  — Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, 15 June 2018
• Much of the compensation to athletes that used to come under the table — leading to NCAA infractions committee investigations and various forms of punishment when caught — will now be aboveboard.
  — Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 2019
• Assume that self-driving cars will potentially be explicitly programmed with such a capability and are aiming to be used when the driving situation is aboveboard for the use of brake checking.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 17 May 2021
• But tape recording has been an important and aboveboard part of presidential procedure since a voice-recording system was first installed under President Franklin D. Roosevelt to capture the content of news conferences.
  — Marc Fisher, chicagotribune.com, 13 May 2017
• Von Anhalt insists this work was aboveboard, but nevertheless quit after Germany tightened financial regulations in 1983.
  — Gary Baum, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Mar. 2018
• As documented in correspondence between the conspirators, all of this was enabled by aboveboard institutions.
  — Andrew Cockburn, Harper's Magazine, 27 Apr. 2020
• The committee tried to be fair and aboveboard in its hiring.
• She acted in a completely open and aboveboard way.
• The only way to reach your goal is through hard work and being honest and aboveboard.
  — Jeraldine Saunders, The Mercury News, 13 May 2017
• They are given housing and jobs—as cooks or maître d’s in the restaurant, perhaps—to help them build skills for aboveboard life.
  — Nathan Heller, The New Yorker, 25 May 2020
• Starting this summer, the state could be able to identify all aboveboard cannabis.
  — Matt Allyn, Popular Mechanics, 15 May 2018
• That means aboveboard teams are looking for players without breaking the rules.
  — Mike Hutton, chicagotribune.com, 28 Apr. 2018
• That type of crime-solving approach would be an aboveboard use of self-driving cars as an aid in crimefighting.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 12 June 2021
• Of course, quid pro quo arrangements are aboveboard when the President is asking for a favor on behalf of the people.
  — Neal Katyal and Sam Koppelman, Time, 7 Nov. 2019

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