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单词 dishonestly
释义 disˈhonestly, adv.
[f. dishonest a. + -ly2.]
1. With dishonour, disgrace, or ignominy; dishonourably, shamefully. Obs.
c1430Lydg. Floure of Curtesye (R.), Dishonestly to speake of any wight She deadly hateth.15..Doctr. Gd. Servauntes in Poet. Tracts (Percy Soc.) 10 Whan that thou arte thus departed Without his loue dyshonestely.1549Compl. Scot. xi. 93 He gart hang, cruelly and dishonestly..sexten scoir of the maist nobillis.1643Prynne Sov. Power Parl. App. 58 Who had been shaven a Monke, or dishonestly bald.
2. Unchastely, not in honourable matrimony.
1560Bible (Genev.) Ecclus. xxii. 4 Shee that liueth dishonestly is her fathers heauinesse.1665Sir T. Herbert Trav. (1677) 71 He dishonestly courts..his Fathers Wife.1685Evelyn Mem. (1857) II. 238 Monmouth..having lived dishonestly with the Lady Henrietta Wentworth for two years.
3. In a dishonest manner, fraudulently; so as to cheat or deceive.
1590Shakes. Com. Err. v. i. 3 He had the Chaine of me, Though most dishonestly he doth denie it.1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. 586 Clarendon, who had refused the oaths, and Ailesbury, who had dishonestly taken them.
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