About The Word Dishonesty

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Dishonesty

Dishonesty Meaning & Definition
Dishonesty Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Dishonesty?

[n] lack of honesty; acts of lying or cheating or stealing
[n] the quality of being dishonest

Synonyms | Synonyms for Dishonesty: knavery

Related Terms | Find terms related to Dishonesty: ambidexterity | artifice | bad faith | ballot-box stuffing | bunco | cardsharping | cheat | cheating | chicane | chicanery | corruptedness | corruption | corruptness | cozenage | credibility gap | criminality | crookedness | cunning | deceitfulness | deviousness | diddle | diddling | dishonor | dodge | double-dealing | doubleness | doubleness of heart | duplicity | evasiveness | faithlessness | falseheartedness | falsehood | falseness | feloniousness | fibbery | fibbing | fishy transaction | flam | flimflam | fraud | fraudulence | fraudulency | gerrymandering | graft | grift | gyp | gyp joint | hanky-panky | illicit business | imposition | imposture | improbity | indirection | low cunning | lying | Machiavellianism | mendaciousness | mendacity | mythomania | pseudology | racket | scam | shadiness | sharp practice | shiftiness | slipperiness | swindle | treachery | trickery | trickiness | truthlessness | two-facedness | unconscientiousness | underhandedness | unsavoriness | unscrupulousness | unstraightforwardness | untruthfulness | unveraciousness | wile

See Also | actus reus | betrayal | charlatanism | corruption | corruptness | crookedness | deceit | deceptiveness | deviousness | disingenuousness | falsehood | falsification | fraudulence | larcenous | misconduct | obliquity | perfidy | quackery | rascality | shiftiness | slipperiness | thievishness | treachery | treason | trick | trickiness | unrighteousness | unscrupulousness | untruthfulness | wrongdoing | wrongful conduct

Dishonesty In Webster's Dictionary

\Dis*hon"es*ty\, n. [Cf. OF. deshonest['e], F. d['e]shonn[^e]tet['e].] 1. Dishonor; dishonorableness; shame. [Obs.] ``The hidden things of dishonesty.'' --2 Cor. iv. 2. 2. Want of honesty, probity, or integrity in principle; want of fairness and straightforwardness; a disposition to defraud, deceive, or betray; faithlessness. 3. Violation of trust or of justice; fraud; any deviation from probity; a dishonest act. 4. Lewdness; unchastity. --Shak.

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