owning up
- confessingAdmitting to a fault
- admittingConfessing or granting entry
- apologizingAcknowledging a wrongdoing
- accountabilityObligation for one's actions
- honestyTruthfulness, sincerity
guilt · responsibility · truth · coming clean · fessing up · acknowledging · remorse · shame · courage · integrity · blame · mistake · wrongdoing · reckoning · facing · confronting · disclosure · sincere
acknowledgment of responsibility
owning updenying
Refusing to acknowledge
deflecting · blaming others · passing the buck · making excuses · scapegoating
truth-telling behavior
owning uplying
Stating known falsehoods
deceiving · concealing · hiding · dissembling · obfuscating