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Dishonest

//dɪˈsɑnɪst// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Not honest; shoddy.

    "“Watch how totally dishonest the California Prop vote is!” Trump fumed on Truth Social over the weekend."

  2. 2
    Interfering with honesty.
  3. 3
    Dishonorable; shameful; indecent; unchaste; lewd. obsolete

    "inglorious triumphs and dishonest scars"

  4. 4
    Dishonoured; disgraced; disfigured. obsolete

    "Dishonest with lopped arms the youth appears, / Spoiled of his nose and shortened of his ears."

Adjective
  1. 1
    capable of being corrupted wordnet
  2. 2
    deceptive or fraudulent; disposed to cheat or defraud or deceive wordnet

Etymology

From Middle English dishoneste (“dishonourable”), from Old French deshoneste, from Latin dehonestus. Equivalent to dis- + honest. Displaced native Old English unsōþfæst.

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