- integrity
- noun1 quality of being honest and firm in your moral principlesADJECTIVE▪ great, high▪ absolute, complete (both esp. BrE)▪ personal▪ academic, artistic, financial, intellectual, journalistic, moral, political, professional, scientific▪
She refused to compromise her artistic integrity.
▪The article is indicative of his contempt for the basic standards of journalistic integrity.
VERB + INTEGRITY▪ have▪She has great personal integrity.
▪ lack▪ lose▪ restore▪The minister promised to restore the honesty and integrity of the government.
▪ retain▪ defend▪ compromise, undermine▪I would never do anything to compromise the integrity of the company.
▪ impugn (formal), question▪She questioned his integrity as an artist.
PREPOSITION▪ with integrity▪The code calls on members to behave with integrity at all times.
PHRASES▪ an attack on sb/sth's integrity2 state of being whole and not dividedADJECTIVE▪ physical, structural, territorial▪The country is fighting to preserve its territorial integrity.
▪ data (computing)VERB + INTEGRITY▪ have▪ lose▪ restore▪ ensure▪It's up to the user to ensure the integrity of the data they enter.
▪ maintain, retain▪We all have an interest in maintaining the integrity of the ecosystem.
▪ preserve, protect, safeguard▪ threaten▪The project threatens the integrity of one of the world's most important wetlands.
▪ compromise, undermine▪concerns that data integrity has been compromised
▪ destroy▪Nuclear weapons have the capability to destroy the physical integrity of the planet.
PHRASES▪ a challenge to sth's integrity, a threat to sth's integrity
Collocations dictionary. 2013.
