Dishonest
[dɪs'ɒnɪst] or [dɪs'ɑnɪst]
Definition
(adj.) deceptive or fraudulent; disposed to cheat or defraud or deceive .
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Definition
(a.) Dishonorable; shameful; indecent; unchaste; lewd.
(a.) Dishonored; disgraced; disfigured.
(a.) Wanting in honesty; void of integrity; faithless; disposed to cheat or defraud; not trustworthy; as, a dishonest man.
(a.) Characterized by fraud; indicating a want of probity; knavish; fraudulent; unjust.
(v. t.) To disgrace; to dishonor; as, to dishonest a maid.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Faithless, knavish, false, unfair, disingenuous, fraudulent, deceitful, treacherous, slippery, unscrupulous, perfidious, wicked, false-hearted.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See FALLIBLE]
Checker: Noelle
Definition
adj. not honest: wanting integrity: disposed to cheat: insincere: (Shak.) unchaste.—adv. Dishon′estly.—n. Dishon′esty.
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Examples
- It was the face of an elderly woman, brown, rugged, and healthy, with nothing dishonest or suspicious in the look of it. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Which is an obvious injustice to the memory of King Lud, and a dishonest exaltation of the virtues of King Cole. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- If from no better motive, that he should not have been too proud to be dishonest--for dishonesty I must call it. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- Get him to admit the bank's liability, and then say to him that Mr. Edison does not think the bank should suffer because he happened to have a dishonest clerk in his employ. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The trenchant divisions between right and wrong, honest and dishonest, respectable and the reverse, had left so little scope for the unforeseen. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- The Russian autocracy was dishonest and incompetent. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I see no more light than if I were sealed in a rock, so that for me to pretend to offer a man a livelihood would be to do a dishonest thing. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Do you think Miss Ingram will not suffer from your dishonest coquetry? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Another person may seem to you dishonest, and yet not be so. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- You will think me dishoneSt. You will think I didn't care for you, or your father and mother. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- In the earliest days of the art, when it was apparent that incandescent lighting had come to stay, the Edison Company was a shining mark at which the shafts of the dishonest were aimed. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Dishonest manufacturers never yield a point in their efforts to defraud. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- For a dishonest one, obviously, or why should he drug his own stable-boy? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- Putting the same meaning into other words, I do not mean to turn a single dishonest penny by this affair. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- So many people are employed in situations of trust; so many people, out of so many, will be dishonest. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- I--I--really believe,' whispered Mr. Winkle, as his friends gathered round him, 'that they think we have come by this horse in some dishonest manner. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
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