English > dishonest: 2 senses > adjective 1| Meaning | deceptive or fraudulent; disposed to cheat or defraud or deceive. |
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| Synonym | dishonorable |
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| Narrower | ambidextrous, deceitful, double-dealing, duplicitous, Janus-faced, two-faced, double-faced, double-tongued | marked by deliberate deceptiveness especially by pretending one set of feelings and acting under the influence of another |
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| beguiling | misleading by means of pleasant or alluring methods |
| deceitful, fallacious, fraudulent | Intended to deceive |
| deceptive, misleading | Designed to deceive or mislead either deliberately or inadvertently |
| false | designed to deceive / deceive |
| picaresque | Involving clever rogues or adventurers especially as in a type of fiction |
| rascally, roguish, scoundrelly, blackguardly | lacking principles or scruples |
| shady | Of questionable honesty or legality |
| thieving, thievish | given to thievery |
| See also | crooked, corrupt | not straight |
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| dishonorable, dishonourable | lacking honor or integrity |
| false | not in accordance with the fact or reality or actuality |
| insincere | lacking sincerity |
| untrustworthy, untrusty | not worthy of trust / trust or belief |
| untruthful | not expressing or given to expressing the truth |
| Opposite | honest, honorable | not disposed to cheat or defraud |
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| Spanish | deshonesto, deshonroso, insincero |
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| Adverbs | dishonestly | in a corrupt and deceitful manner |
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