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Sentence count:167+11Posted:2017-02-20Updated:2020-07-24
Antonym: honestSimilar words: dishonorhonesthonestlydish outbishopchondrogenesisnestdishMeaning: [dɪs'ɒnɪst]  adj. 1. deceptive or fraudulent; disposed to cheat or defraud or deceive 2. lacking honesty and oblivious to what is honorable 3. lacking truthfulness 4. capable of being corrupted. 
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61 Invocations of popular support or consent may be baseless and even blatantly dishonest.
62 Perhaps the most obvious is wilful and corrupt exploitation of debtors by dishonest employees of the credit reference bureau.
63 A hypocrite is more dangerous than a dishonest man. A dishonest man deceives and cheats, and a hypocrite betrays and swindles. Dr T.P.Chia 
64 A store presumably would not authorise dishonest persons putting items intended to be stolen even into the shop's trolley.
65 The accused was not dishonest, judged objectively as well as subjectively.
66 Is it necessary to show that the defendant subjectively knew of the dishonest design or merely that he ought to have known?
67 The Government wants to reduce penalties for honest business failures while increasing the maximum penalties on dishonest bankrupts.
68 This has the advantage that the cases referred to will be brought within the single concept of dishonest appropriation.
69 The omission of a material fact only involves an offence where that fact was concealed with dishonest intention.
70 So two theories-truth in advertising and dishonest manipulation-seem to come to opposite conclusions.
71 Any kind of sharp practice or dishonest dealing will infallibly ruin his career.
72 For instance, referring to the title, some characters are just and immoral(sentencedict.com), some are fair and dishonest.
73 The homeless and those on welfare are despised as lazy or dishonest.
74 His cockney friends would have called it honest endeavour in a dishonest world.
75 But she knew Petey was too old for dishonest leaps between the movies and real life.
76 A few dishonest dealers give the used car trade a bad name.
77 Whether a particular accused should be acquitted because his conduct was not dishonest appears to me to be a moral question.
78 The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business. Clarence Darrow 
79 A second form of corruption was dishonest dealing by the officers of the law.
80 To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonestMahatma Gandhi 
81 One stereotype that will never die is the dishonest and mean-spirited politician.
82 Not all smiles are genuine or sincere. Liars or dishonest people are good at smiling hypocritically to achieve their aims. Dr T.P.Chia 
83 The early cases were overly concerned to protect the gentry's right to communicate gossip about disloyal or dishonest servants.
84 In his summing-up, the judge said it was for the jury to decide if Christopher How had been dishonest.
85 I refuse to be a party to anything so dishonest.
86 It would be fair to sack the employee as incompetent or for being dishonest.
87 The fact that they controlled the company which consented to the transfer was irrelevant in the light of their dishonest appropriation.
88 It says that in many offshore centres, dishonest savers and investors are using laws on client confidentiality to hide shady practices.
89 This housing law would be a charter for dishonest landlords to cheat their tenants.
90 The truth is that we all live in a world full of dishonest liars. Dr T.P.Chia 
More similar words: dishonorhonesthonestlydish outbishopchondrogenesisnestdishsoonestamnestyearnestoutlandishfiendishearnestlyanestheticdisheartenkinestheticestablishdisharmonyhornet's nestinestimabledistinguishdistinguishedestablishmentestablishment ofmanifest destinyhoneyphonehonorphony
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