dishonest
adjective /dɪˈsɒn.ɪst/
/-ˈsɑː.nɪst/ Definition
1. Definition
2. Practise
B2 not honest: a dishonest lawyer a dishonest way of making money morally dishonest intellectually dishonest He's been dishonest in his dealings with us/about his past.Dishonest dishonestly /-li/ adverb C1 The money was dishonestly obtained. She's been accused of acting dishonestly.Dishonest dishonesty /-ˈsɒn.ɪ.sti/
/-ˈsɑː.nə.sti/ noun [U] B2 Her dishonesty landed her in prison.Dishonest
/-ˈsɑː.nə.sti/ noun [U] B2 Her dishonesty landed her in prison.Dishonest(Definition of dishonest adjective from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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- Affected & insincere
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- Cheating & tricking
- Dishonest people
- Disloyalty, betrayal & treason
- Faking & pretending
- Honesty, openness & sincerity
- Lies, lying & hypocrisy
- Loyal, faithful & dependable
- Naive & trusting
- Plotting & trapping
- Praising insincerely or too eagerly
- Sly & devious
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Synonyms and related words:
- be rotten to the core idiom
- be up to no good idiom
- bent adjective (DISHONEST)
- cowboy noun (DISHONEST PERSON)
- crooked adjective (CRIMINAL)
- dodgy adjective (NOT HONEST)
- dubious adjective
- false adjective (NOT TRUE)
- finagle verb
- fishy adjective (DISHONEST)
- fly-by-night adjective
- improper adjective (DISHONEST)
- malfeasance noun
- mendacious adjective
- misleading adjective
- shabby adjective (NOT FAIR)
- sham adjective
- unscrupulous adjective
- unsporting adjective
- weasel out of sth phrasal verb
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