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adjective

Dishonest adj.

Dishonorable; shameful; indecent; unchaste; lewd. (Obs.) "Inglorious triumphs and dishonest scars." "Speak no foul or dishonest words before them (the women)."

Dishonored; disgraced; disfigured. (Obs.) "Dishonest with lopped arms the youth appears, Spoiled of his nose and shortened of his ears."

Wanting in honesty; void of integrity; faithless; disposed to cheat or defraud; not trustworthy; as, a dishonest man.

Characterized by fraud; indicating a want of probity; knavish; fraudulent; unjust. "To get dishonest gain." "The dishonest profits of men in office."

verb

Dishonest v. t. To disgrace; to dishonor; as, to dishonest a maid. (Obs.) "I will no longer dishonest my house."

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"Dishonest" Quotes from Famous Books

... check a child's spirit, but tend to make him dishonest. Ask a child now what he thinks, and, ten to one, he mentally refers to some eminent exemplar of all the virtues for instructions, and, instead of telling you what he does think, quotes listlessly what he ought ...

— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 5, No. 28, February, 1860 • Various

... Washington, to tell the Great Father what their agent was doing—that he stole their goods and sold them back again; and they bade the colonel say that there would be trouble unless some one were put in the dishonest man's place. With the innate logic for which the Indian is noted, they declared that they had as much right to steal from passing caravans as the agent had to steal from them. No notice was taken of so trifling a matter as ...

— Last of the Great Scouts - The Life Story of William F. Cody ["Buffalo Bill"] • Helen Cody Wetmore

... will usually make the better showing, and may therefore be considered permissible in the case of those teams which, because of unfamiliarity with their opponents' methods, can take no chances. This plan of preparation is in no way harmful or dishonest, but lacks some of the more permanent ...

— Elements of Debating • Leverett S. Lyon

... ruffian, the gambler, and the beggar, may without inhumanity be handed over to the law, and made to understand that a State which is too humane to punish will also be too thrifty to waste the life of honest men in watching or restraining dishonest ones. That is why we do not imprison dogs. We even take our chance of their first bite. But if a dog delights to bark and bite, it goes to the lethal chamber. That seems to me sensible. To allow the dog to expiate his bite by a period ...

— Bernard Shaw's Preface to Major Barbara • George Bernard Shaw

... considerable, and his mode of life far from extravagant. But just before the date of our controversy he had been induced to assist the brother of his lost wife, who was a junior partner in a London bank, with the loan of his accumulated savings. This man proved dishonest; he embezzled that and other sums intrusted to him, and fled the country. The same sentiment of conjugal affection which had cost Dr. Lloyd his fortune kept him silent as to the cause of the loss. It was ...

— A Strange Story, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton

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