Dishonesty

English

Noun

Dishonesty (plural dishonesties)

1. (uncountable) The characteristic or condition of being dishonest.
   • 1602, William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, act 3 sc. 4,

     His dishonesty appears in leaving his friend here in necessity and denying him.

2. (countable) An act which is fraudulent or otherwise dishonest.

Antonyms

• honesty

Adjectives for Dishonesty

rank; mercantile; unselfconscious; child-like; acquired.

Verbs for Dishonesty

accuse of—; conceal—; convict of—; cover—; deny—; dispose to—; expose—; renounce—; reveal—; tempt to—; uncover—; —colors; —denies; —disgraces; — scars; —shames; —stains; —violates; — wanes.

Thesaurus

Machiavellianism, ambidexterity, artifice, bad faith, ballot-box stuffing, bunco, cardsharping, cheat, cheating, chicane, chicanery, corruptedness, corruption, corruptness, cozenage, credibility gap, criminality, crookedness, cunning, deceitfulness, deviousness, diddle, diddling, dishonor, dodge, double-dealing, doubleness, doubleness of heart, duplicity, evasiveness, faithlessness, falseheartedness, falsehood, falseness, feloniousness, fibbery, fibbing, fishy transaction, flam, flimflam, fraud, fraudulence, fraudulency, gerrymandering, graft, grift, gyp, gyp joint, hanky-panky, illicit business, imposition, imposture, improbity, indirection, low cunning, lying, mendaciousness, mendacity, mythomania, pseudology, racket, scam, shadiness, sharp practice, shiftiness, slipperiness, swindle, treachery, trickery, trickiness, truthlessness, two-facedness, unconscientiousness, underhandedness, unsavoriness, unscrupulousness, unstraightforwardness, untruthfulness, unveraciousness, wile

Etymology

dishonest + -y

Pronunciation

• IPA: /dɪsˈɒnɪ.stɪ/, SAMPA: /dis"QnI.stI/

Translations

characteristic or condition of being dishonest

Bulgarian: нечестност (bg) f., непочтеност (bg) f. Czech: nepoctivost (cs) f.

Polish: nieuczciwość f. Swedish: oärlighet (sv) c.

an act which is fraudulent or dishonest

Bulgarian: измама (bg) f., мошеничество (bg) n. Polish: nieuczciwość f.

Swedish: oärlighet (sv) c.

References

• dishonesty in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913