Usually means: Lacking integrity in words, actions.
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We found 26 dictionaries that define the word dishonest:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. dishonest: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. dishonest: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. dishonest: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. dishonest: Collins English Dictionary
  5. dishonest: Vocabulary.com
  6. Dishonest, dishonest: Wordnik
  7. dishonest: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. dishonest: Wiktionary
  9. dishonest: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. dishonest: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. dishonest: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Dishonest, dishonest: Dictionary.com
  13. dishonest: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. dishonest: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Dishonest: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Dishonest: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. dishonest: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. dishonest: Rhymezone
  19. dishonest: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. dishonest: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. dishonest: Free Dictionary
  22. dishonest: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. dishonest: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dishonest: Legal dictionary

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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ adjective:  Not honest; shoddy.
▸ adjective:  Interfering with honesty.
▸ adjective:  (obsolete) Dishonourable; shameful; indecent; unchaste; lewd.
▸ adjective:  (obsolete) Dishonoured; disgraced; disfigured.

Similar:
unscrupulous, dishonorable, false, untruthful, roguish, fraudulent, fallacious, duplicitous, misleading, ambidextrous, more...

Opposite:
honest, honestly, honesty

Types:
corrupt, deceitful, fraudulent, crooked, underhanded, more...

Phrases:
dishonest scheme, dishonest person, being dishonest, dishonest behaviour, dishonest sort, more...

Adjectives:
little, more, plain, honest, worst, own, single, certain, few, pretentious, weak

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Similar:
unscrupulous, dishonorable, false, untruthful, roguish, fraudulent, fallacious, duplicitous, misleading, ambidextrous, more...

Opposite:
honest, honestly, honesty

Types:
corrupt, deceitful, fraudulent, crooked, underhanded, more...

Phrases:
dishonest scheme, dishonest person, being dishonest, dishonest behaviour, dishonest sort, dishonest money, being sneaky or dishonest, a dishonest person, dishonest businessman, a person who is dishonest, more...

Adjectives:
little, more, plain, honest, worst, own, single, certain, few, pretentious, weak

Colors:
    gray,     black,     brown,     dark green,     dark red, more...



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