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[syn: dishonesty, knavery]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
dishonesty
n 1: the quality of being dishonest [ant: honestness,
honesty]
2: lack of honesty; acts of lying or cheating or stealing [syn:
dishonesty, knavery]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
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