Dishonesty
[dɪs'ɒnɪstɪ] or [dɪs'ɑnɪsti]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) lack of honesty; acts of lying or cheating or stealing.
(noun.) the quality of being dishonest.
琼整理--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) Dishonor; dishonorableness; shame.
(n.) Want of honesty, probity, or integrity in principle; want of fairness and straightforwardness; a disposition to defraud, deceive, or betray; faithlessness.
(n.) Violation of trust or of justice; fraud; any deviation from probity; a dishonest act.
(n.) Lewdness; unchastity.
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同義詞及近義詞：
n. Improbity, faithlessness, knavery, treachery, falsehood, deceitfulness, perfidiousness, wickedness.
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例句/造句/用法:
- But woe betide the one who has committed an act of bad faith, treachery, dishonesty, or ingratitude; THEN Edison can show what it is for a strong man to get downright mad. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- If from no better motive, that he should not have been too proud to be dishonest--for dishonesty I must call it. 簡·奧斯丁. 傲慢與偏見.
- To them dishonesty is a contradiction of their own lusts, and they ask no credit, need none, for being true. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Down with such dishonesty, says the creditor in triumph, and reviles his sinking enemy. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- I suggested in an earlier chapter that the issue of honesty and dishonesty was a futile one, and I placed faith in the creative men. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Yet he acknowledges that riches have the advantage of placing men above the temptation to dishonesty or falsehood. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- The corruption of which we hear so much is certainly not accounted for when you have called it dishonesty. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- You will,' said Rose, after a pause, 'take some money from me, which may enable you to live without dishonesty--at all events until we meet again? 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- But if the issue is not between honesty and dishonesty, where is it? 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Their dishonesties are comparatively insignificant. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
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