The money was not honestly come by.
Source: tatoeba (50590)
Honestly
//ˈɒn.ɪst.li//
Synonyms for "honestly" (117 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Closest matches (24)
Strong matches (35)
Adverb(16 words)
Adverb(1 words)
Related words (58)
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70 translations across 32 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- بِصَراحة adv (in an honest manner)
Armenian
1 entries- ազնվորեն adv (in an honest manner)
Belarusian
2 entries- чэ́сна adv (in an honest manner)
- шчы́ра adv (in an honest manner)
Bulgarian
4 entries- и́скрено adv (in an honest manner)
- и́скрено adv ((speech act) frankly)
- че́стно adv (in an honest manner)
- наистина? intj (used to express exasperation or dismay)
Catalan
3 entries- honestament adv (in an honest manner)
- honestament adv ((speech act) frankly)
- per ser honest adv ((speech act) frankly)
Chinese Cantonese
1 entries- 真係 /真系 intj (used to express exasperation or dismay)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 正直地 adv (in an honest manner)
- 真是 intj (used to express exasperation or dismay)
Czech
2 entries- upřímně adv (in an honest manner)
- čestně adv (in an honest manner)
Esperanto
1 entries- honeste adv (in an honest manner)
Finnish
1 entries- rehellisesti adv (in an honest manner)
French
4 entries- franchement adv (in an honest manner)
- franchement adv ((speech act) frankly)
- honnêtement adv (in an honest manner)
- honnêtement adv ((speech act) frankly)
German
1 entries- ehrlich adv (in an honest manner)
Gothic
1 entries- 𐌲𐌰𐍆𐌴𐌷𐌰𐌱𐌰 adv (in an honest manner)
Hindi
1 entries- सच्चाई से adv (in an honest manner)
Hungarian
3 entries- becsületesen adv (in an honest manner)
- őszintén adv (in an honest manner)
- őszintén szólva adv ((speech act) frankly)
Italian
3 entries- onestamente adv (in an honest manner)
- onestamente adv ((speech act) frankly)
- per essere onesto adv ((speech act) frankly)
Japanese
3 entries- 正直に adv (in an honest manner)
- 正直に言うと adv ((speech act) frankly)
- まったく intj (used to express exasperation or dismay)
Korean
1 entries- 솔직히 adv (in an honest manner)
Macedonian
1 entries- искрено adv (in an honest manner)
Ngazidja Comorian
1 entries- ha namna ya nyongoha adv (in an honest manner)
Norman
1 entries- honnêtement adv (in an honest manner)
Norwegian Bokmål
4 entries- helt ærlig adv (in an honest manner)
- helt ærlig adv ((speech act) frankly)
- ærlig talt adv ((speech act) frankly)
- ærlig talt intj (used to express exasperation or dismay)
Polish
2 entries- szczerze adv (in an honest manner)
- uczciwie adv (in an honest manner)
Portuguese
3 entries- honestamente adv (in an honest manner)
- honestamente adv ((speech act) frankly)
- para ser honesto adv ((speech act) frankly)
Russian
3 entries- и́скренне adv (in an honest manner)
- и́скренне adv ((speech act) frankly)
- че́стно adv (in an honest manner)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- ȉskreno adv (in an honest manner)
- и̏скрено adv (in an honest manner)
Slovak
2 entries- úprimne adv (in an honest manner)
- čestne adv (in an honest manner)
Spanish
4 entries- francamente adv (in an honest manner)
- honestamente adv (in an honest manner)
- honestamente adv ((speech act) frankly)
- para ser honesto adv ((speech act) frankly)
Swedish
3 entries- sanningsenlig adv (in an honest manner)
- uppriktig adv (in an honest manner)
- ärligt talat adv ((speech act) frankly)
Ukrainian
2 entries- че́сно adv (in an honest manner)
- щи́ро adv (in an honest manner)
Volapük
4 entries- snatiko adv (in an honest manner)
- snato adv (in an honest manner)
- stedäliko adv (in an honest manner)
- stedälo adv (in an honest manner)
Welsh
1 entries- wir i ti adv ((speech act) frankly)
Sample sentences
17 total sentences available.
You must answer honestly.
Source: tatoeba (69168)
It is a matter of principle with him to answer your questions honestly.
Source: tatoeba (70602)
Honestly, it's all or nothing.
Source: tatoeba (271660)
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