dishonest
English
Etymology
Old French deshoneste, from Latin dehonestus. See dis-, honest
Adjective
dishonest (comparative more dishonest, superlative most dishonest)
- Not honest.
- Interfering with honesty.
- (obsolete) Dishonourable; shameful; indecent; unchaste; lewd.
- Alexander Pope
- inglorious triumphs and dishonest scars
- Sir T. North
- Speak no foul or dishonest words before them [the women].
- Alexander Pope
- (obsolete) Dishonoured; disgraced; disfigured.
- Dryden
- Dishonest with lopped arms the youth appears, / Spoiled of his nose and shortened of his ears.
- Dryden
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Translations
not honest
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Further reading
- dishonest at OneLook Dictionary Search
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