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Definition of Dishonest
1. Adjective. Deceptive or fraudulent; disposed to cheat or defraud or deceive.
Similar to: Ambidextrous, Deceitful, Double-dealing, Double-faced, Double-tongued, Duplicitous, Janus-faced, Two-faced, Beguiling, Deceitful, Fallacious, Fraudulent, Deceptive, Misleading, Shoddy, False, Picaresque, Blackguardly, Rascally, Roguish, Scoundrelly, Thieving, Thievish
Also: Dishonorable, Dishonourable, Insincere, Corrupt, Crooked, False, Untrustworthy, Untrusty
Antonyms: Honest
Derivative terms: Dishonorableness
2. Adjective. Capable of being corrupted. "A venal police officer"
Similar to: Corrupt
Derivative terms: Bribe, Corrupt, Corrupt, Corruptibility, Venality
Definition of Dishonest
1. a. Dishonorable; shameful; indecent; unchaste; lewd.
2. v. t. To disgrace; to dishonor; as, to dishonest a maid.
Definition of Dishonest
1. Adjective. Not honest. ¹
2. Adjective. Interfering with honesty. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Dishonest
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dishonest
Literary usage of Dishonest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Unconstitutionality of Slavery by Lysander Spooner (1860)
"They know that the whole people, honest and dishonest, slaveholders and
non-slaveholders alike, must be presumed to have agreed either to an honest or a ..."
2. The Praise of Folly by Desiderius Erasmus (1913)
"Nor have I, after the Example; of Juvenal, raked up that forgotten sink of filth
and ribaldry, but laid before you things rather ridiculous than dishonest. ..."
3. Proverbs, Maxims and Phrases of All Ages: Classified Subjectively and by Robert Christy (1887)
"Nothing is profitable which is dishonest. Cicero. Dishonorable. 1. What is
dishonorable is always dangerous. Dislike. 1. What you dislike for yourself do ..."
4. The Law of Nations, Or, Principles of the Law of Nature Applied to the by Emer de Vattel, Joseph Chitty, Edward Duncan Ingraham (1867)
"»r dishonest purpose. §162. Whether nn alliance may be contracted with those who
do not profess the true religion. [196] J 163. ..."
5. The Greville Memoirs: A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV., King by Charles Greville (1903)
"... Prepara,ions —The Whigs oppose the Reform Bill—Anxiety to defeat the
Government—Lord Cowley returns from Vienna—War impending—dishonest Conduct of both ..."
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