| 单词 | dishonest |
| 释义 | dishonest I. dishonest obsolete II. dis·honest 1. obsolete a. b. c. 2. < dishonest politicians > < hoarding his dishonest gains > < a dishonest report on his earnings > Synonyms: < a dishonest answer > < while it would be dishonest to gloss over this weakness, one must understand it in terms of the circumstances that conspired to produce it — Lewis Mumford > < a dishonest clerk fired for stealing > deceitful may imply an intent or inclination to mislead with the specious or spurious and conceal or distort truth or fact < a deceitful schemer > < deceitful testimony > < educators, above all others, ought to be able to look behind the fine phrase and the fair words, to lift the hooded robe or tear away the deceitful mask, and to expose double-talk for what it is — B.G.Gallagher > lying describes a disposition to falsehood, a habit of telling lies < a lying scoundrel > < silly newspapers and magazines for the circulation of lying advertisements — G.B.Shaw > mendacious, a rather literary term, is a close synonym for lying; it may have benign or bland overtones < nothing would suit him but that they should go aboard the ships that caught his interest where the masters, hearing his quality, set out wine and told him mendacious tales of their trade — J.H.Wheelwright > untruthful is milder than lying and may center attention on the fact of discrepancy from truth or fact without suggestion of motive < an untruthful explanation for the accident > < an untruthful account of the affair > |
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