'Dishonesty' definitions:
Definition of 'dishonesty'
(from WordNet)
noun
The quality of being dishonest [ant: honestness, honesty]
noun
Lack of honesty; acts of lying or cheating or stealing [syn: dishonesty, knavery]
Definition of 'Dishonesty'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Want of honesty, probity, or integrity in principle; want of fairness and straightforwardness; a disposition to defraud, deceive, or betray; faithlessness. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Violation of trust or of justice; fraud; any deviation from probity; a dishonest act. [1913 Webster]
- 4. Lewdness; unchastity. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'dishonesty'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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,
- Machiavellianism,
- 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