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.

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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.
One dishonest plumber does more harm than a hundred poetasters.
Just as the flies are unfaithful partners, some flowers are dishonest about signaling a nectar reward.
As he accepts, it would have been dishonest to write an autobiography without touching on this subject. Times, Sunday Times
He fought against dishonesty and corruption, opportunism and cowardice.
Just as predictably, their basis for that outrage is a highly dishonest portrayal of what Forrest writes.
The auditor says that the report does not suggest that any officer or councillor acted dishonestly. Times, Sunday Times
But at the same time it would be dishonest not to admit that events added some character of sorts to the holiday.
He accomplished this task by treachery, secrecy, speed and dishonesty.
Whereas if only she had been dishonest, and therefore commonplace, she would either have chucked her given word to the devil, or the deep grey sea over which she stood, and cleared for her own happiness and a marriage licence; or kept her word in one sense while making deedy little plans of triangular pattern for future reference. Leonie of the Jungle
The fault lies with the dishonest blackheart who sees his patients as dollar signs. EMR Ethics
I think more behave honestly than dishonestly. Times, Sunday Times
There is a delicious irony about a campaign promising more honesty in politics through the deployment of an argument it must know to be entirely dishonest. Times, Sunday Times
Page 36 serve for the resort and refuge of masterles men and other idle and evill dispozed persons, and are the cause of cozenages, thefts, and other dishonest conversacion and may also be used to cover dangerous practizes. Wrong Side of the River: London's disreputable South Bank in the sixteenth and seventeenth century. Jessica A. Browner
He has been dishonest and disloyal and I've just put up with it. Times, Sunday Times
We went in at the right time and our dreams are ruined because of some dishonest people. Times, Sunday Times
Pretending to be a convert is a very old and dishonest trick, I for one am not falling for it. Think Progress » VIDEO: Sen. Levin and Fox Anchor in On-Air Scuffle Over Iraq Plan
Most people commonly employ dishonesty and deception as a means to get through life safely and advantageously. Dr T.P.Chia
a backhanded and dishonest way of reaching his goal
The people who perpetrated that buy-back scheme are despicable, deceitful, dishonest, and crooked.
They think she's corrupt and dishonest, and epitomises a system that is stacked against them. The Sun
Too much people lack integrity and it is dishonesty that keeps them from being able to reason out issues.
The survey results underscore the pervasiveness of academic dishonesty even as schools employ more sophisticated means to catch cheaters and take a tougher stance to discourage unethical behavior.
Political dishonesty ought to be plucked up by the roots.
Dishonest? I wouldn't have to snoop around if you were honest with Luke.
Barack Obama is "arrogant," "dishonest," and "radical," Fox News 'Sean Hannity announced during a single 10-second chunk of prime-time TV last week -- a casually hateful appraisal that didn't even raise eyebrows, simply because that kind of blanketed disdain for the new president has already become so commonplace. Eric Boehlert: Unhinged in 30 Days: The Right-Wing Media's Obama Era Implosion
Not even dishonesty can tarnish the shine of profit.
I have wondered about deleting the post, but there would be a fundamental dishonesty in doing so.
I do find it dishonest that Harper is pushing this effectively by stealth in this campaign.
People do praise and respect honesty, but most people would prefer dishonest- but- rich to honest- but- poor. Dr T.P.Chia
Don't be deceived bt greedy, lying, dishonest Insurance executives and fradulent lobbyists working for them ..... President Obama heads back to familiar city
But your example of the climatologist is of someone whose research is unpopular, not dishonest. Churchill, Horowitz, Plagiarism, and Academic Freedom
Maybe, his dishonesty is the reason for this, if he did not go writing articles all the time about how he may want to be the leader, people may feel what he says is more candid than it appears. Possible Labour Leadership Contenders… « My Liberal Democrat Political Ramblings…
To describe this film as dishonest and demagogic would almost be to promote these terms to the level of respectability.
Section head - the number of occasions that fraudulent claims are made, ie indicators of honesty or dishonesty.
In July 1969, the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the trial court's judgment that positive assessments of S.n. Goldwater's mental dispositions were left out in the magazine's highly selective (misleading and dishonest) excerptings of purported expert analyses. The Orange County Register - News Headlines : News
The spurious argument that Lewin was ineffective in stemming crime is so openly dishonest that Jamaicans like myself have started to tune out.
With that comes corruption, dishonesty, unfaithfulness, and being immoral.
Urgent action is necessary to purge both banks and bankers of their deeply ingrained dishonesty and greed. Times, Sunday Times
As Levi points out, someone who is a casual or even first-time visitor might not recognize the dishonesty of a troll like dochunt, since he couches his trollery in puffed-up pseudo-academic arrogance. Think Progress » ThinkFast: March 8, 2010
though his associates were dishonest, he remained uncorrupted
If you want someone to fabulate together an excact dollar figure, you will have to go to someone more dishonest than me. My take on anti-foreign bias, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
They deny conspiring to defraud the borough's returning officer by dishonestly causing and permitting applications for proxy votes. Times, Sunday Times
Don't tolerate the equally vicious dishonesty of adultery.
When instructors are not acting as proctors or detectives hoping to stifle cheating or ferret out dishonest students, some are dreaming up schemes of their own.
While embarrassing moments are unavoidable and nothing to be ashamed about, dishonest, vicious or sleazy behavior is well within your control.
To alter or falsify ( accounts, for example ) for dishonest gain.
The article expresses a horror at the 'barbarity' of the 'unmeaning mummeries, dishonest debt, profuse waste, and bad example in an utter oblivion of responsibility'.
I wouldn’t go as far as calling the term inherently dishonest, but it was definitely an attempt to create a pejorative based on the pejorative “Hillarycare.” The Volokh Conspiracy » Inaccurate legal claim from the Democratic Governors Association
Everyday, mundane energies dictate that you let go of dishonest or negative relationships, especially those that undermine you, or draw forth your lower self.
crookedness" or dishonesty in his dealings to slam him with. Undefined
Where there has been dishonesty, then they should lose the benefit of any limitation period protection. Times, Sunday Times
There is still some way to go before cricket can hope to match football for greed and dishonesty, but it's getting there. Times, Sunday Times
You can always get what you want by bribery and corruption, dishonesty and deviousness.
a hare: his dishonesty appears in leaving his friend here in necessity and denying him; and for his cowardship, ask Fabian. Twelfth Night; or, What You Will
The fact that a claimant has convictions for offences of dishonesty does not mean that a jury must disbelieve him.
To call historical films dishonest or inaccurate, as some historians have done, is to misunderstand the process of conversion of academic history into popular history by forming and employing myth.
More specifically, the test is whether the employee's dishonesty gave rise to a breakdown in the employment relationship.
Never accuse a reviewer of dishonesty or exaggeration; erroneous claims are often the result of a misunderstanding, not maliciousness.
They deny conspiring to defraud the borough's returning officer by dishonestly causing and permitting applications for proxy votes. Times, Sunday Times
This has, in fact, turned out to be a wonderful escape clause for dishonest employers everywhere.
If you are such a lazy, dishonest bum as to disagree with that basic premise, then we are not having a conversation about political economy.
I think it is dishonest to advertise their service as impartial.
But he tends to leave an impression of intellectual dishonesty, a disconcerting lack of sincerity.
With the latter choice, the firm was clearly responding to the increasingly avant-garde taste of the time, for by 1930 metal simulating wood was considered by style critics to be ‘a mongrel form, dishonest and unbeautiful.’
I'm about as hardcore a libertarian as they come, but I have to say I find Mr. Kling's attempt to pin the entirely progressive philosophy on a kind of pathology is a bit dishonest and intellectually lazy. In Which Ezra Shows Why He is not Close to Conversion, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
To equate abortion w/alcoholism is dishonest, mean-spirited and hypocritical. Think Progress » Focus on the Family to air a second ad during Super Bowl pre-game.
Subsequent cases of academic dishonesty will be dealt with quite severely.
A minister has ultimate responsibility for mistakes and dishonesty in a government department.
I wish to make it clear that I do not for one moment suggest that any member of the board is or has been guilty of any dishonesty or disreputable comment.
Moreover, given the fact that dishonesty in enterprises increases transaction costs and prolongs the business cycle, the economic development of the country will eventually be stifled.
Why do they call him, variously, treacherous, untrustworthy, racist, pig-headed, short-sighted, dishonest, stupid and vicious?
It would be dishonest not to present the data as fairly as possible.
You need to suspend him pending a disciplinary hearing into fraud, dishonesty and failure to follow a management instruction. Times, Sunday Times
Dishonest research designs," Dr Scott says, "do not give an honest assessment of the physical or the psychological dangers of long-term antidepressant use. FDA Protects SSRI Makers With Misleading Suicide Warning
Guy was greedy, amoral and dishonest.
he is outright dishonest
I was finding it increasingly difficult to keep up my charade with Peter, and every kiss was tainted with my dishonesty.
It was before dawn on New Year's Day that they reached the cottage of Perks, a warrener or gamekeeper, who had been dismissed from Mrs Littleton's service for dishonesty. It Might Have Been The Story of the Gunpowder Plot
The Catholic position on extrauterine pregnancies is dishonest to the point of being immature. The Overreach of Abortion Bans
The enquiry cleared him of any taint of suspicion/dishonesty.
It cost almost as much to elect an honest candidate as to elect a dishonest one, he observed.
If conservatives like dishonest columns then they really are nuts. kth Says: Matthew Yglesias » Fred Hiatt Won’t Correct Dishonest Climate Change Columns, Will Lecture Congress on How to Handle Climate Change
He could be very tender and gracious, but often seemed tone-deaf to the amenities and dishonesties that make human relations tolerable. Thoughts on setting out to read the collected correspondence of the poets Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop
There are millions who never resort to violence or abuse others, who never are dishonest, selfish or greedy in their business dealings.
There is a certain dishonesty, or at least a limitation of truth, in presenting only historical facts.
The pity is that it probably was up until after 2000 and a blatantly dishonest, arrogantly self-focused, irresponsible and unconscionable sociopath was elected president and we see what that cost us. Political family names bring shame as well as fame
A dozen convictions for dishonesty and violence. The Sun
This would seem to be a clever way of catching wrong-doers, exploiting the criminal class's essential dishonesty and grasping nature.
Ignorance is up there with dishonesty on his list of pet hates, and with good reason.
Whatever you might think of heddle, he is not someone who should be lumped with the likes of the Dishonesty Institute, Ray Comfort and Ken Ham. Dover Trap in the Pelican State - The Panda's Thumb
We can spend our lives dallying in false advertising and slick brochures about barren land and cheap trinkets and never for a moment wince at the dishonesty of it.
In cases of dishonest assistance the accountability of the third parties will not be confined to the profit which he has made.
Turkish newspapers on Thursday accused Iraqi and Iraqi Kurdish leaders of dishonesty and unreliability, saying they promised much but delivered virtually nothing.
Throughout the novel, Fitzgerald presents her not only as a shallow, restless, and goalless person but also as cruel, corrupt, and dishonest.
Asshole: literally , one's anus - - a dislikable person That dishonest politician is a real asshole.
That the process involves the FCO in dishonesty, deviousness and dishonour is emphatically encapsulated in the apparent scheme whereby Brussels will delay proposals to scrap Britain's annual £3 billion rebate. Archive 2007-12-23
The panel hearing the misconduct case have been told to strike any allegation that she acted with dishonesty. Times, Sunday Times
On television this sort of thing is enormously effective in demoralizing the innocent and well-mannered who, acting in good faith, do not lie or make personal insults, Buckley has made many honorable men look dishonest fools by his demagoguery, and by the time they recover from his first assault and are ready to retaliate, the program is over. R_urell: William F. Buckley: Father of Modern "Conservatism"
The investigation was called inept and dishonest by the defense, but law enforcement officers in Cary went to great lengths to preserve and analyze all the evidence," Zellinger said. The Seattle Times
Threatening or dishonest telegrams, or anonymous notes pushed under the door, set several plots pinwheeling.
He that, with Archelaus, shall lay it down as a principle, that right and wrong, honest and dishonest, are defined only by laws, and not by nature, will have other measures of moral rectitude and pravity, than those who take it for granted that we are under obligations antecedent to all human constitutions. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
The small amount awarded by the judge, which was not challenged, showed the extent of the dishonest nature of the claim. Times, Sunday Times
The auditor says that the report does not suggest that any officer or councillor acted dishonestly. Times, Sunday Times
She said she preferred being poor and honest than rich and dishonest.
I caught that too. jukebox is a real stickler and pedant when it suits him; but truly elastic when it comes to his own dishonest misstatements. The Volokh Conspiracy » Our Own Randy Barnett Talks to Prof. Glenn Reynolds (InstaPundit) About Whether ObamaCare Is Constitutional
The first thing to note is that if you're a dishonest lazy waster they're not interested in your vote.
It's made me devious and dishonest because I will do anything to find a way to pluck hairs and get that sense of relief. The Sun
Thus dishonest reporting has made truth a casualty of the war, causing grievous damage to the integrity of the journalistic profession.
Third, people can betray the work that they have been given by doing it poorly or dishonestly and corrupting the final product.
The films portray executives as scheming, manipulative and dishonest. The Sun
I told him to reflect well that he was about to commit himself with a foe that was immortal, for a faculty never dies, and to rest assured that after having brought three monks to bay, he would have to defend himself against numerous legions, not only opulent and powerful, but, besides, very dishonest and very experienced in the practice of every kind of cheatery, who would never rest until they had effected his ruin, were his cause as just as Christ's. A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 4
Its easy to believe that photos would dispell the myth because HBs will often ask, "why are there no photos", but they are being dishonest; everyone knows that photos are irrelevant to them. Apollo LEMS on The Moon - NASA Watch
Her claim came as she faced jail after being convicted of dishonestly raking in jobseeker's allowance, housing benefits and income support. The Sun
Lenz case so "sanctimonious" -- and dishonest -- as to suggest that he has never read the YouTube Terms of Service or discerned why a lawyer should not shriek that corporations "flout" their legal obligations by hiring third-parties who specialize in executing those legal obligations (p. 169-170). The Progress & Freedom Foundation Blog
I thought it was dishonorable and dishonest to question the medals and citations that he had received in combat.
Any kind of sharp practice or dishonest dealing will infallibly ruin his career.
A charge very clearly made out against Peytel, is that of dishonesty; he procured from the notary of whom he bought his place an acquittance in full, whereas there were 15,000 francs owing, as we have seen. The Paris Sketch Book
Otherwise, we know a little dishonesty is on display. Driving The Northwest Passage - NASA Watch
Sadly, lies, deceit and dishonesty appear to have become the accepted norm within the portals of power. The Sun
It was dishonest of the boy to pretend that the penknife was his own.
Only from the standpoint of its dishonest and delusional character did the speech provide an indication of the real state of American society.
One stereotype that will never die is the dishonest and mean-spirited politician.
These are only descriptions of unpleasant, unassertive, dishonest, or unprofessional attitudes.
Dishonesty, thievery, and peculation pervade the public sector.
According to Schopenhauer Eristic Dialectic is mainly concerned to tabulate and analyse dishonest stratagems, in order that in a real debate they may be at once recognised and defeated.
Even by the cynical standards of our dishonest political system, this is world-class chutzpah.
She suggested unfaithfulness, and dishonesty.
Most obviously, it implies that we are dishonest; also, it implies that we must be none too smart, since every new term begins with recaps from our profs on the dangers of plagiarism, uncited references and double submissions.
He was taken down by a dishonest lawyer.
Wall Street has never been a safe place to play, but now your investments could be skewed by rank dishonesty.
Some rejection letters are dishonest -- the form ones that say they value your story but due to … -- when the only reading done was by the postie reading the address on the envelope. MIND MELD: Taboo Topics in SF/F Literature
She somewhat hubristically, and I believe rather dishonestly, credits her new found contentment to herself, her will, her desire to bring it all about. Ester Amy Fischer: My Year of Eating, Praying, Loving: Healing Journey or Hocus Pocus?
Honesty is an expensive virtue, and no one is really 100% honest. People are by nature half- honest and half- hypocritical, and they naturally choose to be hypocritical if doing so is beneficial to them. There is always a constant struggle between honesty and dishonesty, but nothing can replace honesty in a pleasant, healthy and happy life. Dr T.P.Chia
So the next best strategy is to convince the electorate that all the other candidates are just as tawdry and dishonest.
But he frankly identifies the rank dishonesty of the memo.
I don't like him, and it would be dishonest of me to pretend otherwise.
But even if we discount the possibility of dishonesty, what he is saying is simply beside the point.
In all fairness he had to admit that she was neither dishonest nor lazy.
He is a con man and he will hurt anyone to get where he wants to be," Tanya tells ET, calling his "Bachelor" performance, "extremely dishonest, very ingenuine, and extremely fake. ETonline - Breaking News
The same bad judgment that led to the dishonest flackery on the prescription drug bill led to this bear ad (and the Iraq war, Alito, etc). Matt Stoller: Carter Eskew and Democratic K-Street Culture
It was, in any case, a terrifying miscalculation which led to a fundamental dishonesty.
But he has been more silly than corrupt, opportunist not dishonest. Times, Sunday Times
Ned : All his friends are dishonest Birds of a feather flock together.
The dishonest government official was publicly disgraced.
The heterogeneous triflings which now, I am very sorry to say, occupy so much of our time, will be neglected; fashion's votaries will silently fall off; dishonest exertions for rank in society will be scorned; extravagance in toilet will be detested; that meager and worthless pride of station will be forgotten; the honest earnings of dependents will be paid; popular demagogues crushed; impostors unpatronized; true genius sincerely encouraged; and, above all, pawned integrity redeemed! History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I
He has been dishonest and disloyal and I've just put up with it. Times, Sunday Times
Each new executive arrival pushes property prices up and increases the power of a growing band of cunning, unscrupulous, downright dishonest rental agents. Times, Sunday Times
He is basically dishonest
Dishonesty and deceit in areas critical to the public interest have been the hallmark of his Administration.
It would be fair to sack the employee as incompetent or for being dishonest.
There were even rebelliously honest policemen, who might blow the whistle on the dishonest ones.
Athletics cannot endure a rigged game or a referee who is dishonest. Christianity Today
The administration that sold itself on simple homespun values and manly virtues has been caught in an act of waspish backstabbing to cover its dishonesty.
Mr. Harrison also testified Monday that he never heard Mr. Beatty use the term "cookie jar" to describe the company's accounting reserves, and said Mr. Beatty never asked him to do anything dishonest. The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
Opposants put out enough nonsense without supporters adding their own lies and dishonesties.
This will be used to make sure drinks have not been watered down by dishonest landlords.
Couple that with the diminished character, intellectual moribundity, and congenital dishonesty of the majority of Congress's members, past and present, and it is easy to grasp why America is in the state it is in. revolt against any health care legislation passed by Congress. The Rule of Reason
You can find many faults with Sarah Palin; she is arrogant, self-centered, egotistic, grossly dishonest, can be pompous and obnoxious, and is literally sociopathic without any conscience, to name just an obvious few. King: 'Going Rogue' reignites Palin divide, even in her hometown
As a percentage of their total numbers, how corrupt and dishonest are MPs? The Sun
Companies should protect employees who blow the whistle on dishonest workmates and work practices.
And yet in arguings and learned contests, the same sort of proceedings passes commonly for wit and learning; but to me it appears a greater dishonesty than the misplacing of counters in the casting up a debt; and the cheat the greater, by how much truth is of greater concernment and value than money. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
CC me on your missives if you like. disgraced professional simulator Francisco Toro, the Venezuelan 2002 coup supporter who wrote a decrepitly dishonest essay published by The New Republic today about Honduras. The Agonist - thoughtful, global, timely
It is usually only when an element of criminal dishonesty is involved that there follows a removal, in disgrace, from Westminster.
She gives the leftie columnist a big blast for the dishonesty of his criticisms.
Applying my earlier test of what a Jury would make of it, I am also confident that they would think differently from the Standards & Privileges Committee and swiftly adjudge it to be a thoroughly dishonest wheeze. Archive 2009-02-08
The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business. Clarence Darrow
The occasion of this cession was probably some league of mutual defence against the Franks, which Cassiodorus could without dishonesty represent as a kind of vassalage of Burgundy to Ostrogothia. The Letters of Cassiodorus Being A Condensed Translation Of The Variae Epistolae Of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator
Really, how could anyone accuse an American televangelist of being your run-of-the-mill, double-dealing, dishonest preacher?
Elderly people are easy prey for dishonest salesmen.
The private company involved was found to have been cheating consumers by being dishonest in the way it charged for its service.
This may be seen as part of a value system based upon personal honour, which eschews deceit and dishonesty towards members of the social group.
This provides that a person's appropriation of another's property is not to be regarded as dishonest if he believes that he has the right in law to deprive the other of it.
She did not attend her final hearing but was struck off after earlier admitting misconduct and dishonesty. The Sun
A store presumably would not authorise dishonest persons putting items intended to be stolen even into the shop's trolley.
They think she's corrupt and dishonest, and epitomises a system that is stacked against them. The Sun
From when he stole the copper from the wires of his employer PGE, to when he "hoodwinked" American into allowing Haliburton to kill and steal from us, he has been consistently DISHONEST .... First on the CNN Ticker: DNC takes aim at Cheney
I feel the same distaste this week as we see two striking examples of this kind of dishonesty. Times, Sunday Times
Whilst I wouldn't call the documentary dishonest, I would call it exploitative.
The small amount awarded by the judge, which was not challenged, showed the extent of the dishonest nature of the claim. Times, Sunday Times
And although it might seeme to thee a dishonest case, and therefore kept from the knowledge of thy friend, yet I plainly tell thee, that dishonest courses (in the league of amitie) deserve no more concealment, then those of the honestest nature. The Decameron
Like so much managerialism, the rules are an active encouragement to dishonesty. Times, Sunday Times
Where the defendant's comment imputes corrupt, dishonest or wicked motives to the claimant the position is different.
It would be dishonest and dishonourable to pretend otherwise.
It'd be dishonest and disingenuous to suggest it was. The Sun
He has acquired a reputation for dishonesty.
But not all of the critics who have attacked the President for being dishonest are peddlers of these way-out notions.
It did not necessarily mean that any of the witnesses were being deliberately deceitful and dishonest.
A dateline is dishonest if the reporter is sitting at home, using the telephone or email to close the distance with the source.
So it does, but only because it has shone a light on the dishonesty and greed of our elected and unelected leaders. Times, Sunday Times
Fraud is often uncovered when businesses fail, as hitherto honest individuals are tempted into dishonest behaviour in an attempt to maintain their high quality of life. Times, Sunday Times

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