dishonest
adjective
Origin of dishonest
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deceptive, unscrupulous, deceitful, sneaky, crooked, shady, unfair, unprincipled, fraudulent, misleading, corrupt, untrustworthy, underhanded, false, backbiting, bent, cheating, crafty, cunning, designingExamples from the Web for dishonest
Contemporary Examples of dishonest
How can the police do that if the community views them as dishonest, or even dangerous?
Bureaucracies are inefficient and dishonest—maybe not intentionally . . . but because there are too many moving parts.
Trying to put the onus onto someone else for your own decisions is really cowardly and kind of dishonest.
She never lied to him or was dishonest to him, and we were very careful to point that out in the movie, but Tom needed to grow up.
Marc Webb Takes Us Inside ‘The Amazing Spider-Man 2’ and Discusses His Rise to the A-ListMarlow Stern
March 15, 2014
Among them is a distinction between “honest graft” and “dishonest graft.”
Historical Examples of dishonest
"If you think it dishonourable or dishonest—" said Beaufort, irresolutely.
Night and Morning, CompleteEdward Bulwer-Lytton
I dare say it was because I had been so dishonest myself just before.
Wilfrid CumbermedeGeorge MacDonald
And is any mode of acquisition, even if unjust and dishonest, equally to be deemed virtue?
MenoPlato
And then Jed Winslow did what was perhaps the first dishonest thing he had ever done.
ShavingsJoseph C. Lincoln
In fact he wrote that he thought it all wrong, deceitful, bordering on the dishonest.
ShavingsJoseph C. Lincoln