dishonest | | |
adj. | 1. dishonest, dishonorable | deceptive or fraudulent; disposed to cheat or defraud or deceive. |
| ~ double-dealing, double-tongued, duplicitous, two-faced, ambidextrous, deceitful, double-faced, janus-faced | marked by deliberate deceptiveness especially by pretending one set of feelings and acting under the influence of another.; "she was a deceitful scheming little thing"; "a double-dealing double agent"; "a double-faced infernal traitor and schemer" |
| ~ beguiling | misleading by means of pleasant or alluring methods.; "taken in by beguiling tales of overnight fortunes" |
| ~ deceitful, fraudulent, fallacious | intended to deceive.; "deceitful advertising"; "fallacious testimony"; "smooth, shining, and deceitful as thin ice"; "a fraudulent scheme to escape paying taxes" |
| ~ misleading, deceptive, shoddy | designed to deceive or mislead either deliberately or inadvertently.; "the deceptive calm in the eye of the storm"; "deliberately deceptive packaging"; "a misleading similarity"; "statistics can be presented in ways that are misleading"; "shoddy business practices" |
| ~ false | designed to deceive.; "a suitcase with a false bottom" |
| ~ picaresque | involving clever rogues or adventurers especially as in a type of fiction.; "picaresque novels"; "waifs of the picaresque tradition"; "a picaresque hero" |
| ~ blackguardly, scoundrelly, rascally, roguish | lacking principles or scruples.; "the rascally rabble"; "the tyranny of a scoundrelly aristocracy"; "the captain was set adrift by his roguish crew" |
| ~ thieving, thievish | given to thievery. |
| ~ dishonorable, dishonourable | lacking honor or integrity; deserving dishonor.; "dishonorable in thought and deed" |
| ~ insincere | lacking sincerity.; "a charming but thoroughly insincere woman"; "their praise was extravagant and insincere" |
| ~ corrupt, crooked | not straight; dishonest or immoral or evasive. |
| ~ false | not in accordance with the fact or reality or actuality.; "gave false testimony under oath"; "false tales of bravery" |
| ~ untrustworthy, untrusty | not worthy of trust or belief.; "an untrustworthy person" |
adj. | 2. bribable, corruptible, dishonest, purchasable, venal | capable of being corrupted.; "corruptible judges"; "dishonest politicians"; "a purchasable senator"; "a venal police officer" |
| ~ corrupt | lacking in integrity.; "humanity they knew to be corrupt...from the day of Adam's creation"; "a corrupt and incompetent city government" |
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