The phrase "apparent honesty" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation where someone's honesty seems clear or obvious, but may not necessarily be genuine.
Example: "Despite his apparent honesty, many questioned his true intentions during the negotiation."
Alternatives: "seeming honesty" or "ostensible honesty".
The smartest scammers don't hide their machinations, but leave them so open that we are bamboozled by their apparent honesty.
He did not bristle, he spoke quietly and with an apparent honesty seldom heard when he stands before a microphone.
"We were victims of our own success," he said, referring to the popularity of the program and the apparent honesty of the state's drivers.
But, he promises, his firm will use these profits to look for new technologies to make SUVs cleaner.Cynics might call this whole exercise self-serving and hypocritical, but such apparent honesty is so rare in corporate reports that it is disarming.
Mr Turk's apparent honesty and his readiness to look after the interests of all his constituents, be they Kurds, Arabs, Turks, Orthodox Christians or Jews, earned him the trust and respect of the local authorities.In this section Could the euro's nuclear option ever be used?
They admired his charisma and apparent honesty.A yorker for ImranMr Khan won in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (former North-West Frontier Province), so his party gets to run an admittedly tricky place, dominated by the wild city of Peshawar.
Throughout all the analysis, however, it is interesting to note much affection for the couple within the press – including some praise of the honesty apparent in their relationship, and the shock at its undoing.
However, there was me appreciating the apparent warmth and honesty of her relationship with Bloom, only to be utterly sideswiped by a decision which, while not taken lightly, was breathtaking in its ruthlessness.
But what I do know is that today's advertising zeitgeist is honesty (itself an apparent oxymoron).
His novel, A Disaffection (a brilliantly sustained depiction of a life half-lived) was even better, and I came to understand that there was a point to the brutal honesty and apparent simplicity of the prose: it was a perfect union of style and substance.
