Dishonest

a.	1.	Dishonorable; shameful; indecent; unchaste; lewd. Inglorious triumphs and dishonest scars. - Pope. Speak no foul or dishonest words before them [the women]. - Sir T. North.
	2.	Dishonored; disgraced; disfigured. 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.
v. t.	1.	To disgrace; to dishonor; as, to dishonest a maid. I will no longer dishonest my house. - Chapman.

Adj.	1.	dishonest - deceptive or fraudulent; disposed to cheat or defraud or deceive Synonyms: dishonorable Antonyms: honest, honorable - not disposed to cheat or defraud; not deceptive or fraudulent; "honest lawyers"; "honest reporting"; "an honest wage"; "honest weight"
	2.	dishonest - lacking honesty and oblivious to what is honorable Synonyms: unscrupulous
	3.	dishonest - lacking truthfulness; "a dishonest answer"
	4.	dishonest - capable of being corrupted; "corruptible judges"; "dishonest politicians"; "a purchasable senator"; "a venal police officer" Synonyms: bribable, corruptible, purchasable, venal

Machiavellian, ambidextrous, amoral, artful, bent, casuistic, cheating, conscienceless, corrupted, counterfeit, crafty, criminal, cronk, 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-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, 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

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