"honest" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- THE village is pervaded by an air of decency, and seems the ideal place to retire after a life of honest graft.
- Plunkitt became wealthy by practicing what he called "honest graft" in politics.
- Such "proprietary activity," as this dog-wagging by the trading tail is euphemized, is legal but dishonorable - the banking equivalent of "honest graft" in politics.
- Others have been of the lowgrade sort that in a more tolerant era were labeled "honest graft": no show jobs and political influence peddling.
- Tweed also reaped a fortune in what one Tammany philosopher later called "honest graft."
- George Washington Plunkitt, grand sachem of Tammany Hall, distinguished between honest and dishonest graft.
- But that's honest graft.
- There's an honest graft, and I'm an example of how it works.
- Well, that's honest graft and I'm lookin' for it every day in the year.
- That one ain't done a day's honest graft in her life.
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