Dishonest \Dis*hon"est\, v. t. [Cf. OF. deshonester.]
To disgrace; to dishonor; as, to dishonest a maid. [Obs.]
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I will no longer dishonest my house. --Chapman.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Dishonest \Dis*hon"est\, a. [Pref. dis- + honest: cf. F.
d['e]shonn[^e]te, OF. deshoneste.]
1. Dishonorable; shameful; indecent; unchaste; lewd. [Obs.]
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Inglorious triumphs and dishonest scars. --Pope.
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Speak no foul or dishonest words before them [the
women]. --Sir T.
North.
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2. Dishonored; disgraced; disfigured. [Obs.]
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Dishonest with lopped arms the youth appears,
Spoiled of his nose and shortened of his ears.
--Dryden.
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3. Wanting in honesty; void of integrity; faithless; disposed
to cheat or defraud; not trustworthy; as, a dishonest man.
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4. Characterized by fraud; indicating a want of probity;
knavish; fraudulent; unjust.
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To get dishonest gain. --Ezek. xxii.
27.
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The dishonest profits of men in office. --Bancroft.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
dishonest
adj 1: deceptive or fraudulent; disposed to cheat or defraud or
deceive [syn: dishonorable] [ant: honest]
2: lacking honesty and oblivious to what is honorable [syn: unscrupulous]
3: lacking truthfulness; "a dishonest answer"
4: capable of being corrupted; "corruptible judges"; "dishonest
politicians"; "a purchasable senator"; "a venal police
officer" [syn: corruptible, bribable, purchasable, venal]
WordNet (r) 2.0
101 Moby Thesaurus words for "dishonest":
Machiavellian, 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, 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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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