Positive character trait
Honorable
Guided by strong moral principles and worthy of respect.
3 ready sentences Updated Run by Adrian Nutiu
What it looks like
- Keeps a promise after it has stopped paying them to keep it.
- Returns an overpayment or admits an error that nobody else would have noticed.
- Deals fairly with a rival or an opponent, including one who has lost.
Fits when someone acts with integrity and a serious regard for what is right
Not when you mean prestigious, admired, or formally titled
How to say it
Replace the brackets with what the person actually did.
There is no resume line for this one: calling yourself honorable sounds old-fashioned and self-congratulatory on paper. Describe a commitment you kept or an error you put right, and let a reference use the word.
Fills [Name] in the reference and the report card comment, ready to copy.
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Reference or recommendation [Name] is honorable in business: when [a deal changed or an agreement stopped favoring them], they kept to what they had promised without being asked.
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Report card comment [Name] keeps promises to classmates and plays by the rules, even when losing.
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In a story, shown not told The deal had been a handshake, and prices had doubled since. He delivered the timber at the old rate, on the day he had said he would.
It was honorable of him to keep the promise after the arrangement stopped benefiting him.
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