The phrase "do honest work" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to performing tasks or duties with integrity and sincerity.
Example: "In our company, we value employees who do honest work and contribute positively to our mission."
Alternatives: "perform genuine work" or "engage in sincere labor."
They are honest people who do honest work — crack-the-bones work; lift-it, chop-it, empty-it, glide-it-in-smooth work; feel-the-flames-up-close work; crawl-down-in-there work — things that no one wants to do but that someone must.
We want you to do honest work and help you avoid mistakes.
Paid lab techs will do honest work, but no one will give their results any credence because they're just paid lab techs.
After advising many graduates and undergraduates about academic honesty, he decided to write a book designed to help the vast majority of students who want to do honest work.
After minimalism, and the work of Robert Irwin, James Turrell, Donald Judd, amongst others, how can you do honest work after that?
People do them because they want to do honest work, make a decent living, contribute to society and have some financial security in retirement.
Never listen to anybody who wants to put you down for doing honest work.
The professor, imagining himself doing "honest work," as a "cabbage or soybean grower," appears to have taken up the outdated ideology of the Cultural Revolution, and to have forgotten the humiliation and torture he suffered during that period.
The Congressional Budget Office, which does honest work but under certain constraints -- more on that in a minute -- is supposed to release its own estimate today, but the main results have already been leaked.
Although they run to type -- from the Secret Service agent who comes out of retirement to settle a personal score with the Witch to the naïve youngsters who need training wheels for their first spy mission -- these sharply drawn career cops are vital characters doing honest work, even if they aren't as sexy as a cold-hearted woman with long legs and a way with knives.
They've probably heard about how hard it is out there for small family farmers, doing honest work in the world, keeping everyone fed and maintaining our institutional repository of agricultural practices.
