Sentence examples for old honest from inspiring English sources

"THE old, honest English stock" is being diluted by asylum seekers of a "different and base species".

Good old honest money, always there, brazenly making more and more of itself, until one day, suddenly, it isn't.

For an idea whose adherents like to promote suspicion of foreigners, it is perhaps odd that the "exit" part of Brexit derives from Latin rather than good old honest Anglo-Saxon.

An investigation of retractions from the biomedical scientific literature database PubMed published in the prestigious Proceedings of the National Academy of Science USA PNASS) found that a whopping 63.2% of health- and life-science related retractions were due to fraud, suspected fraud or plagiarism, with good old honest error retractions in the sound minority.

The Christian Democrats: A party for those who care about good, old, honest, Christian values.

Luckily "Conan" was up to the task and came up with an argument about why presidents who have lots of random sex are better at their jobs than plain-old honest ones.

It was time to go back to good old fashioned, honest drug dealing.

And Krusoe's witty book, for all its drifting in the slipstream of realistic narrative, ends up being, in the old and honest and satisfying sense, familiar.

"I make my money the old school, honest way by making things.

However, the country's hype-men decided that the country was actually agonising over whether Bridge would shake Terry's hand, during the pre-match proof that the Premier League is not the vicious corporatist sham it might sometimes seem, rather a bastion of the good, honest, old-fashioned English values that delivered monarchy and colony.

(UKIP, meanwhile, plan to abolish tuition fees just for good, honest, old-fashioned subjects like science and math, so all you wishy-washy, loony-left humanities students can pay for your own bloody bongos and berets. The most slipper-wearing-dad tuition fee policy of all).