Honorable and Responsible

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Honorable adjective - Guided by or in accordance with one's sense of right and wrong.

Usage example: I believe that if I genuinely cannot decide fairly, I should do the honorable thing and decline to serve on the panel

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Responsible and honorable are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Responsible" instead an adjective "Honorable".

Nearby Words: honor, honour, honourable, honored, honoured

Responsible adjective - Being the one who must meet an obligation or suffer the consequences for failing to do so.

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Honorable and responsible are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Honorable" instead an adjective "Responsible".

She starts out a bit short tempered, but over time, becomes a responsible, courageous, strong, caring, kind, honorable, intelligent and selflfless young girl.

Source: Ideal Hero
Clear My Name: Although given an honorable discharge from the military after "the Washington Incident", Shelly seems to feel that she needs to "restore her name", suggesting that she's unofficially held responsible for it anyway.

Source: Video Game / Bombshell
In Tinker Tailor he was the one called in to hunt down the mole; in Honorable Schoolboy he was responsible for largely rebuilding the Circus from the ground up.

Source: Literature / The Quest for Karla

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