Die woordeboekbetekenis van die woord "integriteit" is die kwaliteit om eerlik te wees, sterk morele beginsels te hê en konsekwent te wees in die handhawing daarvan. Dit behels die nakoming van 'n stel etiese en morele waardes, selfs in die aangesig van moeilike of uitdagende situasies, en om eerlik te wees in 'n mens se woorde en dade. Integriteit word dikwels beskou as 'n hoogs gewaardeerde eienskap in individue, organisasies en instellings, aangesien dit geassosieer word met betroubaarheid, betroubaarheid en eer.
1. Celestino, my talented artist husband, a one-man champion of integrity.
2. It looks like the structural integrity of the tunnel wall is compromised.
3. For though his integrity and reputation might bridle slanderous tongues, still he was unwilling to hazard either his own good name or that of his friend and for this reason most of the days agreed upon he devoted to some other business which he pretended was unavoidable so that a great portion of the day was taken up with complaints on one side and excuses on the other.
4. And among other reasons, I am induced to entrust this arduous task to thee by the consideration that if Camilla be conquered by thee the conquest will not be pushed to extremes, but only far enough to account that accomplished which from a sense of honour will be left undone thus I shall not be wronged in anything more than intention, and my wrong will remain buried in the integrity of thy silence, which I know well will be as lasting as that of death in what concerns me.
5. It was feasible that all lawyers took the same safeguards against memory loss to preserve the integrity of their information.
6. His father, a shark of a businessman but a man of integrity, would not have approved.
7. Given that, I guess they saw that I could maintain my integrity.
8. It does not appear, from all you have said, how any one virtue is required towards the procurement of any one station among you much less that men are ennobled on account of their virtue that priests are advanced by their piety or learning soldiers for their conduct or valor judges for their integrity senators for the love of their country or counselors for their wisdom.
9. He had performed many eminent services for the crown, had great natural and acquired parts, adorned with integrity and honor but so ill an ear for music, that his detractors reported he had been often known to beat time in the wrong place neither could his tutors without extreme difficulty teach him to demonstrate the most easy proposition in mathematics.
10. How low an opinion I had of human wisdom and integrity when I was truly informed of the springs and motives of great enterprises and revolutions in the world, and of the contemptible accidents to which they owed their success!