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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

... had in the world. Every cent I owned. That boy said, put it in a bank. I lost money when the Cheslow Bank failed forty year ago. I don't get caught twice in the same trap— no, sir! I've lost more this time; but no dishonest blackleg will have the benefit of it, that's sure. The river's got it, and nobody will ever be a cent the better off ...

— Ruth Fielding of the Red Mill • Alice B. Emerson

... the most gracious manner? Good faith, M. Fouquet, is a weapon which scoundrels very frequently make use of against men of honor, and it answers their purpose. Men of honor ought in their turn, also, to make use of dishonest means against such scoundrels. You would soon see how strong they would become, without ceasing to be ...

— The Vicomte de Bragelonne - Or Ten Years Later being the completion of "The Three - Musketeers" And "Twenty Years After" • Alexandre Dumas

... mercy." For he manifestly admits the joy at other men's harms to be subsistent, as well as envy and mercy; though in other places he affirms it to have no subsistence; as he does also the hatred of wickedness, and the desire of dishonest gain. ...

— Essays and Miscellanies - The Complete Works Volume 3 • Plutarch

... guineas, opened; he laid the money down upon the table, but mechanically seized his box of trinkets, which he seemed to fear would be the next seized, as forfeits. No persons are so apprehensive of injustice and fraud as those who are themselves dishonest. Mr. Carat, bowing repeatedly to Alderman Holloway, shuffled toward the door, asking if he might now depart; when the door opened with such a force, as almost to push the retreating ...

— Tales And Novels, Volume 1 • Maria Edgeworth

... toward them a step, in generous interest, "you little know Louis de St. Veran if you believe him capable of profiting by this letter to humble brave men, or to build up a dishonest reputation for himself. Listen to my terms before ...

— The Last of the Mohicans • James Fenimore Cooper

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