dis·hon·est

(dĭs-ŏn′ĭst)

adj.

1. Disposed to lie, cheat, defraud, or deceive.

2. Resulting from or marked by a lack of honesty.

[Middle English dishoneste, dishonorable, from Old French deshoneste, probably from Medieval Latin *dishonestus : Latin dis-, dis- + Latin honestus, honorable; see honest.]

dis·hon′est·ly adv.

Synonyms: dishonest, lying², untruthful, deceitful, mendacious
These adjectives mean lacking honesty or truthfulness. Dishonest is the least specific: a dishonest reply; a dishonest business executive; had been dishonest with myself.
Lying conveys a blunt accusation of falsehood: a lying witness whose testimony fell apart under cross-examination.
Untruthful is a softer term and often suggests evasiveness or distortion rather than outright lies: published an untruthful account of the incident.
Deceitful implies misleading by falsehood or by concealment of the truth: deceitful advertising.
Mendacious is more formal than lying, and suggests a chronic inclination toward untruth: a mendacious, power-hungry politician.

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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Adv.

dishonestly - in a corrupt and deceitful manner; "he acted dishonestly when he gave the contract to his best friend"

deceitfully, venally

aboveboard, honestly - in an honest manner; "in he can't get it honestly, he is willing to steal it"; "was known for dealing aboveboard in everything"

Translations

بصورَةٍ غَيْر شَريفَه

nepoctivě

unehrlich

malhonnêtement

nem becsületesen

óheiîarlega

disonestamente

düzenbazlılıklanamussuzca

不诚实地

dishonestly

[dɪsˈɒnɪstlɪ] ADV → fraudulentamente, deshonestamente
to act dishonestly → obrar con poca honradez or de forma poco honrada

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

dishonestly

[dɪsˈɒnɪstli] adv [behave, act] → malhonnêtement

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

dishonestly

adv (= not truthfully) → unehrlich; pretend, claim → unehrlicherweise; (= deceitfully) → betrügerisch; (= with intent to deceive) → in betrügerischer Absicht; to obtain money dishonestly → sich auf betrügerische Weise Geld verschaffen

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

dishonestly

[dɪsˈɒnɪstlɪ] adv → disonestamente, in modo disonesto

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

dishonest

(disˈonist) adjective

not honest; deceitful. She was dishonest about her qualifications when she applied for the job.

disˈhonestly adverb

disˈhonesty noun

the state or quality of being dishonest. I would not have expected such dishonesty from him.

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References in classic literature

Arthur Gride was tried for the unlawful possession of the will, which he had either procured to be stolen, or had dishonestly acquired and retained by other means as bad.

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cat-like doth the moon come along, and dishonestly.--

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You feel that they are dishonestly locked up, to be hunted about from wharf to wharf on a dark, greasy, square pool of black water as a brutal reward at the end of a faithful voyage.

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This discovery she imparted to me; and having agreed together that it would be a proper treatment of so vile a Wretch as Macdonald to deprive him of money, perhaps dishonestly gained, it was determined that the next time we should either of us happen to go that way, we would take one or more of the Bank notes from the drawer.

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At last it was conveyed to the carrier's, at whose house at Finchley Kit was to find it next day; and the box being gone, there remained but two questions for consideration: firstly, whether the carrier would lose, or dishonestly feign to lose, the box upon the road; secondly, whether Kit's mother perfectly understood how to take care of herself in the absence of her son.

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'There, captain,' says he, 'there's part of a pledge for our fidelity; if we deal dishonestly with you on any account, 'tis your own.' And on this we went on shore.

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You should see him where he has some great opportunity of acting dishonestly, as in the guardianship of an orphan.

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But there was also about him an indescribable air which no mechanic could have acquired in the practice of his handicraft however dishonestly exercised: the air common to men who live on the vices, the follies, or the baser fears of mankind; the air of moral nihilism common to keepers of gambling hells and disorderly houses; to private detectives and inquiry agents; to drink sellers and, I should say, to the sellers of invigorating electric belts and to the inventors of patent medicines.

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Jenna Cromack, 24, of Brettenham Avenue, Middlesbrough, fined pounds 100 and ordered to pay costs of pounds 215 for dishonestly making a false representation.

Courts in Breif

A MOTHER of five who operated a "cynical" benefit fraud dishonestly obtaining over pounds 20,000 to help pay off the mortgage on a property in Birmingham has escaped being jailed.

NO JAIL FOR pounds 20k SCAM MUM-OF-5

THE following cases were heard at Cardiff Magistrates' Court: Louisa Anne Anderson, 39, of Flaxland Avenue, Cardiff, was fined pounds 130, plus a victim surcharge of pounds 50 and pounds 15 costs, for dishonestly arranging to receive stolen jewellery and fashion accessories belonging to Asda worth pounds 250, and possessing two grams of amphetamine.

BROUGHT TOJUSTICE

Earlier this week, she was sentenced to a three month community order after pleading guilty at an earlier hearing to three charges of dishonestly claiming Jobseekers Allowance, Income Support and Housing and Council Tax Benefits.

Fraudsters pay price in court; Magistrates show cheats don't prosper