About The Word Dishonest
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Dishonest
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What's The Definition Of Dishonest?
[adj] capable of being corrupted; "corruptible judges"; "dishonest politicians"; "a purchasable senator"; "a venal police officer"
[adj] deceptive or fraudulent; disposed to cheat or defraud or deceive [adj] lacking truthfulness; "a dishonest answer" [adj] lacking honesty and oblivious to what is honorable Synonyms | Synonyms for Dishonest: ambidextrous | beguiling | blackguardly | bribable | corrupt | corruptible | deceitful | deceptive | dishonorable | double-dealing | double-faced | double-tongued | duplicitous | fallacious | false | fraudulent | Janus-faced | misleading | picaresque | purchasable | rascally | roguish | scoundrelly | thieving(a) | thievish | two-faced | unscrupulous | untruthful | venal Related Terms | Find terms related to Dishonest: ambidextrous | amoral | artful | bent | casuistic | cheating | conscienceless | corrupt | corrupted | counterfeit | crafty | criminal | cronk | crooked | cunning | dark | deceitful | deceiving | deceptive | defrauding | devious | dishonorable | disingenuous | double | double-dealing | double-faced | doublehearted | double-minded | double-tongued | doubtful | dubious | duplicitous | empty | equivocal | evasive | faithless | fake | false | falsehearted | false-principled | felonious | fishy | forsworn | fraudulent | furtive | hollow | hypocritical | ill-got | ill-gotten | immoral | indirect | insidious | insincere | jesuitic | knavish | lying | Machiavellian | mealymouthed | mendacious | not kosher | oblique | perfidious | perjured | prevaricating | questionable | roguish | rotten | shady | shameless | shifty | sinister | slippery | snide | suspicious | swindling | thieving | thievish | tongue in cheek | treacherous | tricky | truthless | two-faced | uncandid | unconscienced | unconscientious | unconscionable | underhand | underhanded | unethical | unfair | unfrank | unprincipled | unsavory | unscrupulous | unserious | unstraightforward | untrustworthy | untruthful | unveracious | without remorse | without shame See Also | crooked | dishonourable | insincere | untrustworthy | untrusty Dishonest In Webster's Dictionary \Dis*hon"est\, a. [Pref. dis- + honest: cf. F.
d['e]shonn[^e]te, OF. deshoneste.]
1. Dishonorable; shameful; indecent; unchaste; lewd. [Obs.]
Inglorious triumphs and dishonest scars. --Pope.
Speak no foul or dishonest words before them [the
women]. --Sir T.
North.
2. Dishonored; disgraced; disfigured. [Obs.]
Dishonest with lopped arms the youth appears,
Spoiled of his nose and shortened of his ears.
--Dryden.
3. Wanting in honesty; void of integrity; faithless; disposed
to cheat or defraud; not trustworthy; as, a dishonest man.
4. Characterized by fraud; indicating a want of probity;
knavish; fraudulent; unjust.
To get dishonest gain. --Ezek. xxii.
27.
The dishonest profits of men in office. --Bancroft.
\Dis*hon"est\, v. t. [Cf. OF. deshonester.] To disgrace; to dishonor; as, to dishonest a maid. [Obs.] I will no longer dishonest my house. --Chapman. |
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