conscientious, tender-conscienced, right-minded; high-principled,
high-minded; scrupulous, religious, strict; nice, punctilious, correct, punctual; respectable, reputable; gentlemanlike[obs3].
     inviolable, inviolate; unviolated[obs3], unbroken, unbetrayed;
unbought, unbribed[obs3].
     innocent &c. 946; pure, stainless; unstained, untarnished, unsullied,
untainted, unperjured[obs3]; uncorrupt, uncorrupted; undefiled, undepraved[obs3], undebauched[obs3]; integer vitae scelerisque purus [Lat][Horace]; justus et tenax propositi [Lat][Horace].
     chivalrous, jealous of honor, sans peur et sans reproche[Fr]; high-
spirited.
     supramundane[obs3], unworldly, other-worldly, overscrupulous[obs3]. 
     Adv. honorable &c. adj.; bona fide; on the square, in good faith,
honor bright, foro conscientiae[Lat], with clean hands. 
     Phr. “a face untaught to feign” [Pope]; bene qui latuit bene vixit
[Lat][Ovid]; mens sibi conscia recti[Lat]; probitas laudatur et alget [Lat][obs3][Juvenal]; fidelis ad urnam[Lat]; “his heart as far from fraud as heaven from earth” [Two Gentlemen]; loyaute m’oblige[Fr]; loyaute n’a honte[Fr]; “what stronger breastplate than a heart untainted?” [Henry VI].

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     #940.  Improbity. —­ N. improbity[obs3]; dishonesty, dishonor;
deviation from rectitude; disgrace &c. (disrepute) 874; fraud &c. (deception) 545; lying &c. 544; bad faith, Punic faith; mala fides[Lat], Punica fides[Lat]; infidelity; faithlessness &c. adj.; Judas kiss, betrayal.
     breach of promise, breach of trust, breach of faith; prodition|,
disloyalty, treason, high treason; apostasy &c. (tergiversation) 607; nonobservance &c. 773.
     shabbiness &c. adj.; villainy, villany[obs3]; baseness &c. adj.;
abjection, debasement, turpitude, moral turpitude, laxity, trimming, shuffling.
     perfidy; perfidiousness &c. adj.; treachery, double dealing;
unfairness &c. adj.; knavery, roguery, rascality, foul play; jobbing, jobbery; graft, bribery; venality, nepotism; corruption, job, shuffle, fishy transaction; barratry, sharp practice, heads I win tails you lose; mouth honor &c. (flattery) 933. 
     V. be dishonest &c. adj.; play false; break one’s word, break one’s
faith, break one’s promise; jilt, betray, forswear; shuffle &c. (lie) 544; live by one’s wits, sail near the wind.
     disgrace oneself, dishonor oneself, demean oneself; derogate, stoop,
grovel, sneak, lose caste; sell oneself, go over to the enemy; seal one’s infamy. 
     Adj. dishonest, dishonorable; unconscientious, unscrupulous;
fraudulent &c. 545; knavish; disgraceful &c. (disreputable) 974; wicked &c. 945.
     false-hearted, disingenuous; unfair, one-sided; double, double-
hearted, double-tongued, double-faced; timeserving[obs3], crooked, tortuous,insidious, Machiavelian, dark, slippery; fishy; perfidious, treacherous, perjured.
     infamous, arrant, foul,