Dishonest

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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.]
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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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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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