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dishonesty|dɪsˈɒnɪstɪ|
Also 4–5 des-, dishonestee.
[a. OF. desho(n)nesté (13th c. in Littré, in mod.F. déshonnêteté) = Pr. dezonestat, It. disonestà, a Romanic formation on dishonest-us dishonest, after L. honestāt-em honourableness, honesty.]
The quality of being dishonest.
†1. Dishonour, disgrace, discredit, shame; (with pl.) a dishonourable or disgraceful action. Obs.
c1386Chaucer Pars. T. ⁋759 Shame, that eschueth alle deshonestee. c1400Destr. Troy 528 Ne deme no dishonesty in your derfe hert. 1535Coverdale Ecclus. iii. 13 Where the father is without honoure, it is the dishonesty of the sonne. a1542Wyatt Compl. Loue (R.), From thousand dishonesties have I him drawen. 1582N. T. (Rhem.) 2 Cor. iv. 2 We renounce the secrete [1611 hidden] things of dishonestie [Wycl. Geneva, R.V. shame, Tindale, etc. unhonestie.] 1596Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot. viii. 86 To venture he may haue honour; to ly hidd as he la, dishonestie.
†2. Unchastity, lewdness. Obs.
1535Coverdale Ecclus. xxii. 4 Shee that commeth to dishonesty, bringeth hir father in heuynes. 1553S. Cabot Ordinances in Hakluyt Voy. (1589) 261 No woman to be tempted..to incontinencie or dishonestie. 1630Wadsworth Pilgr. vii. 73 Accused..of dishonesty with another mans wife. 1639S. Du Verger tr. Camus' Admir. Events 110 A right temple of Cyprus where the sacrifices were only dishonesties.
†3. Shameful or foul appearance, ugliness, deformity. Obs.
c1400Mandeville (Roxb.) xviii. 82 Þare may a man see mykill dishonestee [F. meinte leide figure]. 1485Caxton Chas. Gt. 91 Ye may not see them by cause of the fylthe and dyshoneste of the place. 1535Coverdale Ezek. xvi. 8 Then spred I my clothes ouer the, to couer thy dishonestie [1611 nakednesse].
4. The reverse of honesty; lack of probity or integrity; disposition to deceive, defraud, or steal; thievishness; theft, fraud. Also, a dishonest or fraudulent act.
1599Shakes. Much Ado ii. ii. 9 So couertly, that no dishonesty shall appeare in me. 1616Surfl. & Markh. Country Farme 320 Others are of opinion, that stolne Bees thriue best, but..I neuer knew profit in dishonestie. 1751–73Jortin Eccl. Hist. (R.), A forger..will avoid..minute detail, in which he must perpetually expose his ignorance and dishonesty. 1804Southey Lett. (1856) I. 280, I have caught out Barros in so many dishonesties. 1878Jevons Prim. Pol. Econ. 59 Nothing is more difficult than for a person convicted of dishonesty to find desirable employment. |