What is another word for dishonest?
Synonyms for dishonest
dɪsˈɒn ɪstdis·hon·est
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
dishonest
Synonyms:
deceitful, disingenuous, faithless, false, fraudulent, hypocritical, lying, mendacious, perfidious, traitorous, treacherous, unfaithful, unscrupulous, untrueAntonyms:
candid, equitable, fair, faithful, frank, genuine, good, honest, honorable, ingenuous, just, sincere, straightforward, true, trustworthy, trusty, upright
Princeton's WordNet
dishonest, dishonorableadjective
deceptive or fraudulent; disposed to cheat or defraud or deceive
Synonyms:
dishonourable, purchasable, venal, bribable, corruptible, dishonorablecorruptible, bribable, dishonest, purchasable, venaladjective
capable of being corrupted
"corruptible judges"; "dishonest politicians"; "a purchasable senator"; "a venal police officer"
Synonyms:
for sale, purchasable, venal, bribable, corruptible, dishonorable
Dictionary of English Synonymes
dishonestadjective
Synonyms:
faithless, knavish, false, unfair, disingenuous, fraudulent, deceitful, treacherous, slippery, unscrupulous, perfidious, wicked, false-hearted
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
dishonestadjective
Synonyms:
unscrupulous, corruptible, deceitful, fraudulent
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "dishonest":
unfair, dishonesty, disingenuous, untruthful, dishonourable, rogue, conniving, deceitful, fraudulent, unscrupulous, crooked
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#2392 | false | |
#7137 | lying | |
#10657 | rogue | |
#10658 | unfair | |
#15352 | fraudulent | |
#19040 | crooked | |
#27285 | dishonest | |
#30218 | untrue | |
#30443 | dishonesty | |
#32281 | faithless | |
#37389 | treacherous | |
#38412 | hypocritical | |
#40826 | unscrupulous | |
#50824 | unfaithful | |
#55524 | deceitful | |
#60164 | disingenuous | |
#83872 | dishonorable | |
#98300 | conniving | |
#118674 | traitorous | |
#123607 | untruthful | |
#128190 | perfidious | |
#129275 | venal | |
#130249 | corruptible | |
#170225 | dishonourable | |
#174612 | mendacious | |
#187346 | purchasable |
How to use dishonest in a sentence?
Trump's dishonest tweets and robocalls means his team either knows nothing about Pennsylvania election law or he's just scared to death we're going to beat him.
I find it very dishonest of Brabrand to state that there is ‘no pedophilia’ and that the images are ‘not obscene’ when the images are objectively so, by any measure, and his counterpart in the next county agrees they are ‘inappropriate,’.
Let's be clear about this: our company was dishonest - with the EPA and the California Air Resources Board - and with all of you. And in my German words: We totally screwed up. We must fix those cars.
Ted has chosen to make this really personal and chosen to call people dishonest in leadership and call them names, which really goes against the decorum and also against the rules of the Senate, and as a consequence he can't get anything done legislatively, he is pretty much done for ... and it's really because of personal relationships, or lack of personal relationships, and it is a problem.
I've been in a business where you know, it's pretty sharp. You meet sharp people, I don't mean sharp like sharp, although they're that also. But you meet people that really go to the edge, i've never met people like politicians, they are the most dishonest people I've ever met ... I think Jeb (Bush) is just Jeb. But this guy Ted Cruz is the most dishonest person I've ever met in politics.
Translations for dishonest
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- غير أمين, غشاش, مخادعArabic
- непочтен, нечестенBulgarian
- deshonestCatalan, Valencian
- unehrlichGerman
- deshonesto, embustero, mentirosoSpanish
- malhonnêteFrench
- disonestoItalian
- 不正直Japanese
- uærligNorwegian
- nieuczciwyPolish
- desonestoPortuguese
- necinstitRomanian
- бесчестный, нечестныйRussian
- неискрен, neiskrenSerbo-Croatian
- neiskrénSlovene
- oärligSwedish
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