dishonestadjective
uk/dɪˈsɒn.ɪst/us/dɪˈsɑː.nɪst/B2 not honest:
a dishonest lawyer
a dishonest way of making money
morally dishonest
intellectually dishonest
He's been dishonest in his dealings with us/about his past.
More examples
- I'm convinced she's being dishonest about what happened and is just trying to avoid the blame.
- We believe that you have been dishonest with us and that some of the details on your CV are false.
- The money never reached the people it was meant for but was stolen by dishonest officials.
- She was upset by the suggestion that she had been dishonest.
- I am very disappointed that you should accuse your sister in such a cowardly and dishonest way.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Dishonest
- bad faith
- be rotten to the core idiom
- be up to no good idiom
- bent
- cowboy
- dubious
- false
- finagle
- fishy
- fly-by-night
- malfeasance
- mendacious
- misleading
- perjure
- rich
- underhand
- unreliable
- unscrupulous
- unsporting
- weasel
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dishonestly
adverb uk/dɪˈsɒn.ɪst.li/us/dɪˈsɑː.nɪst.li/
C1
The money was dishonestly obtained.
She's been accused of acting dishonestly.
dishonesty
noun [ U ] uk/dɪˈsɒn.ɪ.sti/us/dɪˈsɑː.nə.sti/
B2
Her dishonesty landed her in prison.