Meaning of DISHONEST
| Pronunciation: | | dis'ânist
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- [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
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| | Synonyms: | | 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 |
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| | Antonyms: | | honest, honorable | | |
| | See Also: | | crooked, dishonourable, insincere, untrustworthy, untrusty | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\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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| | Related Terms: | | 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 |
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