Dishonest synonyms
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Part of speech:
deceiving
Not honest
Unfaithful or disloyal to a belief, duty, or cause:
A person who slanders or speaks badly of a person without that person's knowledge.
Disposed to or characterized by untruth:
Playfully mischievous
Not honest
Not yet determined or specified.
Contrary to truth; not true.
Not admitted or made known to others; secret
Duplicitous or deceitful; treacherous.
Tending to deceive; apt to lie or cheat
Characterized by, constituting, or gained by fraud:
Not genuine or real:
Made in imitation of something genuine so as to deceive or defraud; forged
Attractive or pretty in a delicate way; cute
Furtive; surreptitious.
Hard to deal with, complicated
Like or characteristic of a knave; esp., dishonest; tricky
Full of wiles; cunning.
At an irregular or improper angle; askew:
Deceiving or intended to deceive
Tending to mislead; deceptive.
bluffing
Not honest
Inclined or intended to evade:
Tending to slip, as from one's grasp:
Excessively ingratiating or insincerely earnest:
Not sincere; not genuine:
Being a hypocrite:
Not noble; unbecoming true honor or dignity; mean; unworthy; fake or deceptive.
Not honest
swindling
Not honest
Not honest
falsehearted
Alternative spelling of false-hearted.
Very bad, disagreeable, or objectionable
Wicked, evil, or dishonest, esp. in some dark, mysterious way
Lying; untruthful:
Given to or marked by deliberate deceptiveness in behavior or speech.
Of, relating to, or marked by perfidy; treacherous.
Beguiling but harmful; alluring:
Departing from the correct or accepted way; erring:
Alternative form of Machiavellian.
hoodwinking
Not honest
Done by moving the hand (arm) from below.
Overspread with shade; sheltered from the glare of light or sultry heat.
Composed of two unlike parts; dual:
double-crossing
Not honest
fork-tongued
Not honest
Lacking principles or moral scruples; unscrupulous:
(Informal) Having or showing a tricky or deceitful nature; evasive
Not scrupulous; not restrained by ideas of right and wrong; unprincipled
The opposite of dependable
Not fit to be seen; dirty, shabby, etc.
Lacking integrity; unprincipled.
Containing errors or alterations, especially ones that prevent proper understanding or use:
Lacking integrity
Not noble in birth or position; of the common people
Not fit or becoming
Feeling or having undergone degradation; deprived of dignity or self-respect.
Showing much wear; ragged; threadbare
Tending toward or characterized by cruelty or violence:
Having little relative height; not high or tall:
(Now Rare) Capable of being obtained for a price
Serving one's own selfish interests, esp. at the expense of others
(Obsolete) Contemptuous.
Lacking integrity
That can be corrupted, esp. morally
Soft or easily broken as because of decomposition; friable
Extremely unfortunate or regrettable:
(Informal) Causing doubt or suspicion; questionable
honest (antonym)
truthful (antonym)
candid (antonym)
scrupulous (antonym)
trustworthy (antonym)
ethical (antonym)
Characterized by or deserving shame or disgrace:
Having a wavy indented margin, as a leaf.
Characterized by many curves or turns; winding:
Obtained, done, or made by clandestine or stealthy means.
(Uncountable) The characteristic or condition of being dishonest.
A cause of loss of honor:
An instance of deliberate deceptiveness; double-dealing.
Lack of probity; dishonesty
An indirect action or process.
indirectness
The condition of being indirect
The condition of being infamous; disgrace:
knavishness
The quality of being knavish.
The act or an instance of treachery.
Playful mischief
sinuosity
A bending or curving shape or movement.
unscrupulosity
The fact or state of being villainous
To use equivocal terms in order to deceive, mislead, hedge, etc.; be deliberately ambiguous
To speak or write evasively; equivocate.
frank (antonym)
open (antonym)
aboveboard (antonym)
fair (antonym)
moral (antonym)
principled (antonym)
Capable of being bought:
Contrary to established moral principles.
Synonym Study
- Untruthful is used as a somewhat softened substitute for lying, esp. with reference to statements, reports, etc. an untruthful account
- Lying suggests only the act of telling a falsehood curb your lying tongue
- Deceitful implies an intent to make someone believe what is not true, as by giving a false appearance, using fraud, etc. a deceitful advertisement
- Dishonest implies the act or practice of telling a lie, or of cheating, deceiving, stealing, etc. a dishonest official
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