Word of the Day for Tuesday, March 4, 2008probity \PRO-buh-tee\, noun:Complete and confirmed integrity; uprightness.Unless some light is shed on shady dealings and some probity restored, more young lives will be blighted and careers choked off.-- Norman Lebrecht, Who Killed Classical Music?To suggest that this exemplar of financial probity was enriching himself at public expense was to shake the very foundations of the new Republic.-- William Safire, ScandalmongerProbity is from Latin probitas, from probus, "good, upright, virtuous."
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