'Dishonest' definitions:
Definition of 'dishonest'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Deceptive or fraudulent; disposed to cheat or defraud or deceive [syn: dishonest, dishonorable] [ant: honest, honorable]
adjective
Capable of being corrupted; "corruptible judges"; "dishonest politicians"; "a purchasable senator"; "a venal police officer" [syn: corruptible, bribable, dishonest, purchasable, venal]
Definition of 'Dishonest'
From: GCIDE
- Dishonest \Dis*hon"est\, v. t. [Cf. OF. deshonester.] To disgrace; to dishonor; as, to dishonest a maid. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- I will no longer dishonest my house. --Chapman. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Dishonest'
From: GCIDE
- Dishonest \Dis*hon"est\, a. [Pref. dis- + honest: cf. F. d['e]shonn[^e]te, OF. deshoneste.]
- 1. Dishonorable; shameful; indecent; unchaste; lewd. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- Inglorious triumphs and dishonest scars. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
- Speak no foul or dishonest words before them [the women]. --Sir T. North. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Dishonored; disgraced; disfigured. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- Dishonest with lopped arms the youth appears, Spoiled of his nose and shortened of his ears. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Wanting in honesty; void of integrity; faithless; disposed to cheat or defraud; not trustworthy; as, a dishonest man. [1913 Webster]
- 4. Characterized by fraud; indicating a want of probity; knavish; fraudulent; unjust. [1913 Webster]
- To get dishonest gain. --Ezek. xxii. 27. [1913 Webster]
- The dishonest profits of men in office. --Bancroft. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'dishonest'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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,
- double-minded,
- double-tongued,
- doublehearted,
- doubtful,
- dubious,
- duplicitous,
- empty,
- equivocal,
- evasive,
- faithless,
- fake,
- false,
- false-principled,
- falsehearted,
- 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