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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

DISHONEST, a. Dizonest. [dis and honest.]
1. Void of honesty; destitute of probity, integrity or good faith; faithless; fraudulent; knavish; having or exercising a disposition to deceive, cheat and defraud; applied to persons; as a dishonest man.
2. Proceeding from fraud or marked by it; fraudulent; knavish; as a dishonest transaction.
3. Disgraced; dishonored; from the sense in Latin.
Dishonest with lopped arms the youth appears.
4. Disgraceful; ignominious; from the Latin sense.
Inglorious triumphs, and dishonest scars.
5. Unchaste; lewd.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: deceptive or fraudulent; disposed to cheat or defraud or deceive [syn: dishonest, dishonorable] [ant: honest, honorable]
2: capable of being corrupted; "corruptible judges"; "dishonest politicians"; "a purchasable senator"; "a venal police officer" [syn: corruptible, bribable, dishonest, purchasable, venal]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French deshoneste, from des- dis- + honeste honest Date: 14th century 1. obsolete shameful, unchaste 2. characterized by lack of truth, honesty, or trustworthiness ; unfair, deceptive • dishonestly adverb Synonyms: dishonest, deceitful, mendacious, untruthful mean unworthy of trust or belief. dishonest implies a willful perversion of truth in order to deceive, cheat, or defraud <a swindle usually involves two dishonest people>. deceitful usually implies an intent to mislead and commonly suggests a false appearance or double-dealing <the secret affairs of a deceitful spouse>. mendacious may suggest bland or even harmlessly mischievous deceit and when used of people often suggests a habit of telling untruths <mendacious tales of adventure>. untruthful stresses a discrepancy between what is said and fact or reality <an untruthful account of their actions>.

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. (of a person, act, or statement) fraudulent or insincere. Derivatives: dishonestly adv. Etymology: ME f. OF deshoneste (as DIS-, HONEST)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Dishonest Dis*hon"est, a. [Pref. dis- + honest: cf. F. d['e]shonn[^e]te, OF. deshoneste.] 1. Dishonorable; shameful; indecent; unchaste; lewd. [Obs.] Inglorious triumphs and dishonest scars. --Pope. Speak no foul or dishonest words before them [the women]. --Sir T. North. 2. Dishonored; disgraced; disfigured. [Obs.] Dishonest with lopped arms the youth appears, Spoiled of his nose and shortened of his ears. --Dryden. 3. Wanting in honesty; void of integrity; faithless; disposed to cheat or defraud; not trustworthy; as, a dishonest man. 4. Characterized by fraud; indicating a want of probity; knavish; fraudulent; unjust. To get dishonest gain. --Ezek. xxii. 27. The dishonest profits of men in office. --Bancroft.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Dishonest Dis*hon"est, v. t. [Cf. OF. deshonester.] To disgrace; to dishonor; as, to dishonest a maid. [Obs.] I will no longer dishonest my house. --Chapman.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

If you say that a person or their behaviour is dishonest, you mean that they are not truthful or honest and that you cannot trust them. It would be dishonest not to present the data as fairly as possible. ? honest ADJ: oft it v-link ADJ to-inf • dishonestly The key issue was whether the four defendants acted dishonestly. ADV: usu ADV with v

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. 1. Faithless, knavish, false, unfair, disingenuous, fraudulent, deceitful, treacherous, slippery, unscrupulous, perfidious, false-hearted, without probity, destitute of integrity. 2. [Said of women.] Unchaste, unvirtuous, wanton, lewd, unfaithful (to marriage vows).

Moby Thesaurus

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