Meaning of DISHONESTY
| Pronunciation: | | dis'ânistee
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- [n] lack of honesty; acts of lying or cheating or stealing
- [n] the quality of being dishonest
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| | Synonyms: | | knavery |
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| | Antonyms: | | honestness, honesty | | |
| | See Also: | | actus reus, betrayal, charlatanism, corruption, corruptness, crookedness, deceit, deceptiveness, deviousness, disingenuousness, falsehood, falsification, fraudulence, larcenous, misconduct, obliquity, perfidy, quackery, rascality, shiftiness, slipperiness, thievishness, treachery, treason, trick, trickiness, unrighteousness, unscrupulousness, untruthfulness, wrongdoing, wrongful conduct | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Dis*hon"es*ty\, n. [Cf. OF. deshonest['e], F.
d['e]shonn[^e]tet['e].]
1. Dishonor; dishonorableness; shame. [Obs.] ``The hidden
things of dishonesty.'' --2 Cor. iv. 2.
2. Want of honesty, probity, or integrity in principle; want
of fairness and straightforwardness; a disposition to
defraud, deceive, or betray; faithlessness.
3. Violation of trust or of justice; fraud; any deviation
from probity; a dishonest act.
4. Lewdness; unchastity. --Shak.
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| | Related Terms: | | 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, Machiavellianism, 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 |
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