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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

Machiavellian, ambidextrous, amoral, artful, bent, casuistic, cheating, conscienceless, corrupt, corrupted, counterfeit, crafty, criminal, cronk, crooked, cunning, dark, deceitful, deceiving, deceptive, defrauding, devious, dishonorable, disingenuous, double, double-dealing, double-faced, double-minded, double-tongued, doublehearted, doubtful, dubious, duplicitous, empty, equivocal, evasive, faithless, fake, false, false-principled, falsehearted, felonious, fishy, forsworn, fraudulent, furtive, hollow, hypocritical, ill-got, ill-gotten, immoral, indirect, insidious, insincere, jesuitic, knavish, lying, mealymouthed, mendacious, not kosher, oblique, perfidious, perjured, prevaricating, questionable, roguish, rotten, shady, shameless, shifty, sinister, slippery, snide, suspicious, swindling, thieving, thievish, tongue in cheek, treacherous, tricky, truthless, two-faced, uncandid, unconscienced, unconscientious, unconscionable, underhand, underhanded, unethical, unfair, unfrank, unprincipled, unsavory, unscrupulous, unserious, unstraightforward, untrustworthy, untruthful, unveracious, without remorse, without shame

Dictionary Results for dishonest:

1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

dishonest
    adj 1: deceptive or fraudulent; disposed to cheat or defraud or
           deceive [syn: dishonest, dishonorable] [ant:
           honest, honorable]
    2: capable of being corrupted; "corruptible judges"; "dishonest
       politicians"; "a purchasable senator"; "a venal police
       officer" [syn: corruptible, bribable, dishonest,
       purchasable, venal]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Dishonest \Dis*hon"est\, v. t. [Cf. OF. deshonester.]
   To disgrace; to dishonor; as, to dishonest a maid. [Obs.]
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         I will no longer dishonest my house.     --Chapman.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Dishonest \Dis*hon"est\, a. [Pref. dis- + honest: cf. F.
   d['e]shonn[^e]te, OF. deshoneste.]
   1. Dishonorable; shameful; indecent; unchaste; lewd. [Obs.]
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            Inglorious triumphs and dishonest scars. --Pope.
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            Speak no foul or dishonest words before them [the
            women].                               --Sir T.
                                                  North.
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   2. Dishonored; disgraced; disfigured. [Obs.]
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            Dishonest with lopped arms the youth appears,
            Spoiled of his nose and shortened of his ears.
                                                  --Dryden.
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   3. Wanting in honesty; void of integrity; faithless; disposed
      to cheat or defraud; not trustworthy; as, a dishonest man.
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   4. Characterized by fraud; indicating a want of probity;
      knavish; fraudulent; unjust.
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            To get dishonest gain.                --Ezek. xxii.
                                                  27.
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            The dishonest profits of men in office. --Bancroft.
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