Dishonesty
[dɪs'ɒnɪstɪ] or [dɪs'ɑnɪsti]
Definition
(noun.) lack of honesty; acts of lying or cheating or stealing.
(noun.) the quality of being dishonest.
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Definition
(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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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Improbity, faithlessness, knavery, treachery, falsehood, deceitfulness, perfidiousness, wickedness.
Edited by Amber
Examples
- 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. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- 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.
- To them dishonesty is a contradiction of their own lusts, and they ask no credit, need none, for being true. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Down with such dishonesty, says the creditor in triumph, and reviles his sinking enemy. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- 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. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Yet he acknowledges that riches have the advantage of placing men above the temptation to dishonesty or falsehood. Plato. The Republic.
- The corruption of which we hear so much is certainly not accounted for when you have called it dishonesty. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- 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? Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- But if the issue is not between honesty and dishonesty, where is it? Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Their dishonesties are comparatively insignificant. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
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