[ US /dɪˈsɑnəst/ ]
[ UK /dɪsˈɒnɪst/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. capable of being corrupted
    a venal police officer
    dishonest politicians
    a purchasable senator
    corruptible judges
  2. deceptive or fraudulent; disposed to cheat or defraud or deceive
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How To Use dishonest In A Sentence

  • He's not tried to be dishonest, he has just forgotten to mention one thing.
  • There is actually a dishonesty, really, about that slogan that says to keep it in the laboratory and it will be OK.
  • Dishonesty is always one way of climbing the ladder of success, but dishonest intentions and manipulations are more prone to fail. Dr T.P.Chia 
  • People on welfare are wrongly seen as lazy or dishonest.
  • The following day, North accused his bosses of appalling, dishonest and unethical behaviour.
  • The little silver bell tinkles at a wayside shrine, calling the labouring man to propitiate the idol for the carelessness and detected dishonesties of his day's labours, and goodly Hindus, men and women, stream down the busy thoroughfare, responsive to the call. Love and Life Behind the Purdah
  • Procedures that were set up to expose and correct dishonesty were themselves blocked or shown to be inefficient.
  • Dishonest members are to be admonished; if they continue in dishonest practices, excommunication follows.
  • This has become a motif among net-critics, whose vanguard is Andrew Keen, who wrote a sloppy, intellectually dishonest book called The Cult of the Amateur that damns the Internet for much the same reasons (Clay Shirky wrote a great response to Keen). Boing Boing
  • There's no way you'll hear me saying, ‘dishonesty at any level corrupts the individual’, or find me stalking birds around the garden.
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