Dishonesty

3 definitions found

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

  Dishonesty \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.
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     2. Want of honesty, probity, or integrity in principle; want
        of fairness and straightforwardness; a disposition to
        defraud, deceive, or betray; faithlessness.
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     3. Violation of trust or of justice; fraud; any deviation
        from probity; a dishonest act.
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     4. Lewdness; unchastity. --Shak.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  dishonesty
       n 1: the quality of being dishonest [ant: {honesty}]
       2: lack of honesty; acts of lying or cheating or stealing [syn:
           {knavery}]

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

  80 Moby Thesaurus words for "dishonesty":
     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