Mr Hammond has been (successfully) trying to restore fiscal probity to the Ministry of Defence, long a pariah in Whitehall for its casual approach to the military equipment budget.
The credit of individuals ought certainly never to depend upon so very slender a security, as the probity and religion of the inferior officers of revenue.
One is the kind of accusation of slight tinges of hypocrisy against Sunak, who, when he became prime minister, sort of promised a new era in terms of ethics and probity.
He is tied down to rigid probity; but a gentleman enjoys the honour of fighting for his king and his pleasure, and does not need to encumber himself with foolish trifles.
Companies may say that their managers and employees should act with integrity and, more formally, probity – complete honesty – and that they do not tolerate any form of professional misconduct.
Jouve, the inspector and retired captain, was also there, in a frock-coat and white tie, wearing his decoration as a mark of respectability and probity, and receiving the ladies with a gravely polite air.
There is no need of being acquainted with Tully's offices, to make a man of probity: and perhaps the most virtuous woman in the world is the least acquainted with the definition of virtue.
His mother died while he was young; but his father, a man of sense and probity, had given him an excellent education at school, and brought him up at home to orderly and frugal habits.