How to Use probity in a Sentence

probity

noun

• With the bureau’s probity questioned by Gohmert and others, Comey sprang to the defense.
  — Bethany McLean, The Hive, 19 June 2017
• Even for Linda Sarsour, who is not known for her moral probity.
  — Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, 7 Sep. 2017
• Like Newsom himself, the LAO is striking a note of fiscal probity.
  — The Editorial Board, Orange County Register, 2 Dec. 2019
• Trump is growing lonely in his protestations of his own probity.
  — Dana Milbank, The Mercury News, 9 June 2017
• 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
• Politicians and lawyers are not always known for their probity, but journalists have fact-checkers.
  — Yair Rosenberg, The Atlantic, 21 Jan. 2024
• 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
• Empowered to make a planning decision that will affect the neighborhood for decades to come, the teenagers show a level of probity Bruce Rauner and Rahm Emanuel should aspire to.
  — Tanner Howard, Chicago Reader, 19 July 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
• Yet by asserting his commitment to fiscal probity, Lindner managed to have his cake and eat it too.
  — Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 30 Sep. 2022
• 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
• Namely, to uphold the probity of future Georgia elections.
  — Teddy McDarrah, Forbes, 9 Apr. 2021
• He’s highly respected for probity on both sides of the political aisle.
  — Peter Grier, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 May 2017
• 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
• 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
• The idea has support that extends well beyond those fixated on fiscal probity.
  — The Economist, 30 Sep. 2017
• 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
• There are no longer any unifying national figures whose probity and rectitude could be held up as symbols of hope and civic instruction.
  — Michael Auslin, National Review, 3 Aug. 2017
• Judge Miguel Ángel Gálvez is a bookish man with a reputation for probity who wears suits and carefully coordinated ties and shirts to work.
  — Peter Canby, The New York Review of Books, 15 Nov. 2022
• The nationalist leader known for personal probity planned to give huge tracts of farmland to an Indian guru.
  — Gavin Evans, Quartz, 17 June 2021
• Some try to project themselves as energetic and compassionate, others as wise and possessed of probity.
  — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 31 Jan. 2018
• 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
• 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
• But Comey has a reputation for probity and independence.
  — Trudy Rubin, The Mercury News, 13 June 2017
• Garland seems to be counting on a belief that most Americans, exhausted by the Trump years, will welcome his neutrality, probity, and reticence.
  — David Rohde, The New Yorker, 15 June 2021
• For many Pakistanis, his reputation for personal probity sets him apart from his money-grubbing peers.
  — Sadanand Dhume, WSJ, 12 July 2018
• 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
• 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 Burns’s progressive sanctimony shifts from the dread and fatigue Jones feels in his lead-walled skiff to Feinstein’s supposed probity in her sunlit office with an ethnically diverse staff.
  — Armond White, National Review, 20 Nov. 2019
• Two long unwon wars destroyed the GOP’s reputation for sobriety in foreign affairs, and the 2008 crash cratered its reputation for economic probity.
  — Peggy Noonan, WSJ, 14 Feb. 2019

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