aboveboard
Use Aboveboard in a sentence
adverb, adjective
in open sight; without tricks, concealment, or disguise: Their actions are open and aboveboard.
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Aboveboard
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a chattering or flighty, light-headed person. |
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Example sentences
It's an honest trick, it's an open and aboveboard trick, but it is a trick nonetheless.
Which is not to say that every dealer runs an aboveboard business.
Remain professional and aboveboard in all your dealings.
But while there are certainly aboveboard agents and applications, other recruiters engage in fraudulent behavior.
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