EGAVE

dishonest

About 1.72 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. adjective Not honest; shoddy.
  2. adjective Interfering with honesty.
  3. adjective Dishonorable; shameful; indecent; unchaste; lewd.
  4. adjective Dishonoured; disgraced; disfigured.
  5. adjective ↑ Jespersen, Otto (1909), A Modern English Grammar on Historical Principles (Sammlung germanischer Elementar- und Handbücher; 9)‎, volume I: Sounds and Spellings, London: George Allen & Unwin, published 1961, § 6.64, page 203.

Similar words

unscrupulous dishonorable roguish untruthful false blackguardly misleading duplicitous deceptive double-dealing

Often followed by

and or in to man practices men with means

Word family

dishonestly

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