Dishonesty Synonyms and Antonyms

dĭs-ŏnĭ-stē
Lack of integrity
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. improbity
Lack of straightforwardness and honesty in action
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. chicanery
  2. knavery
  3. deception
  4. craft
  5. craftiness
  6. cunning
  7. duplicity
  8. cheating
  9. double-dealing
  10. hypocrisy
  11. trickery
  12. slyness
  13. trickiness
  14. fraud
  15. shadiness
  16. indirection
  17. fraudulence
  18. stealing
  19. hanky-panky
  20. mendacity
  21. deceit
  22. falsehood
  23. infidelity
  24. faithlessness
  25. falsity
  26. artifice
  27. wiliness
  28. untrustworthiness
  29. insidiousness
  30. guile
  31. perfidiousness
  32. perfidy
  33. treachery
  34. deviousness
  35. knavishness
  36. cant
  37. crookedness
  38. corruption
  39. mythomania
  40. lying
  41. subtlety
  42. insincerity
  43. prevarication
  44. swindle
  45. shiftiness
  46. rascality
  47. artfulness
  48. subtleness
  49. pettifoggery
  50. embezzlement
  51. counterfeiting
  52. forgery
  53. sneakiness
  54. perjury
  55. treason
  56. false pretenses
  57. flimflam
  58. hocus-pocus
  59. skulduggery
  60. improbity
  61. underhandedness
  62. unscrupulousness
Antonyms:
  1. honesty
  2. truthfulness
  3. scrupulousness
  4. sincerity
  5. fairness
  6. frankness
  7. integrity
  8. openness
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Departure from what is legally, ethically, and morally correct
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. corruption
  2. corruptness
  3. improbity
  4. crookedness

Words Related to Dishonesty

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Dishonesty Sentence Examples

  • Deceit is a tactic that requires dishonesty.

  • Once in summer he had sent for the village elder from Bogucharovo, a man who had succeeded to the post when Dron died and who was accused of dishonesty and various irregularities.

  • On his recovery he found his private affairs in some confusion, and he was at the same time deeply indebted to the government for public funds which had been lost through the mismanagement or dishonesty of a confidential clerk, and for which he was responsible as district-attorney.

  • The Cave report showed that Egypt suffered from the ignorance, dishonesty, waste and extravagance of the East and from the vast expense caused by hasty and inconsiderate endeavours to adopt the civilization of the West.

  • All the vigilance of the emperor could not restrain the dishonesty and the cupidity of his servants, and no sooner was the strong hand of their ruler removed than they began to acquire territorial power for themselves.

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