Definitions for probity

probity pro·bi·ty

Spelling: [proh-bi-tee, prob-i-]
IPA: /ˈproʊ bɪ ti, ˈprɒb ɪ-/

Probity is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 144 anagrams from letters in probity (bioprty).

Definitions for probity

noun

  1. integrity and uprightness; honesty.

Origin of probity

1505-15; Latin probitās uprightness, equivalent to prob(us) upright + -itās -ity

Examples for probity

To men of your intelligence and probity, these admonitions are, perhaps, unnecessary.

Nodding agreement, the other official dubbed the burst of probity around tax cuts “a newfound religion” for the GOP.

Yet once on the trail, so to speak, he is probity personified.

However I might be disposed to trust his probity, I dare not trust his prejudices.

He was touched by this easy and, as it were, natural display of probity.

I went to the comptroller, and trusting in his probity I explained my scheme to him.

But it clearly would have cast those shadows over the question of her general judgment and probity.

The faithful driver, who had given such proofs of probity, continued to be of great service, and was put in perpetual requisition.

In a few years his unprincipled wife warped the probity of a lifetime.

And yet it first arouses our suspicion of the probity and reality of Gorki's types.

Word Value for probity
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14

Words with friends

15

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