dishonesty

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: dis=hon=es=ty

OXFORD DICTIONARY

dishonesty, n. (pl. -ies)
1 a a lack of honesty. b deceitfulness, fraud.
2 a dishonest or fraudulent act.

Etymology

ME f. OF deshon(n)est{eacute} (as DISHONEST)

THESAURUS

dishonesty

Machiavellianism, ambidexterity, artifice, bad faith, ballot-box stuffing, bunco, cardsharping, cheat, cheating, chicane, chicanery, corruptedness, corruption, corruptness, cozenage, credibility gap, criminality, crookedness, cunning, deceitfulness, deviousness, diddle, diddling, dishonor, dodge, double-dealing, doubleness, doubleness of heart, duplicity, evasiveness, faithlessness, falseheartedness, falsehood, falseness, feloniousness, fibbery, fibbing, fishy transaction, flam, flimflam, fraud, fraudulence, fraudulency, gerrymandering, graft, grift, gyp, gyp joint, hanky-panky, illicit business, imposition, imposture, improbity, indirection, low cunning, lying, mendaciousness, mendacity, mythomania, pseudology, racket, scam, shadiness, sharp practice, shiftiness, slipperiness, swindle, treachery, trickery, trickiness, truthlessness, two-facedness, unconscientiousness, underhandedness, unsavoriness, unscrupulousness, unstraightforwardness, untruthfulness, unveraciousness, wile

ROGET THESAURUS

dishonesty

Improbity

N improbity, dishonesty, dishonor, deviation from rectitude, disgrace, fraud, lying, bad faith, Punic faith, mala fides, Punica fides, infidelity, faithlessness, Judas kiss, betrayal, breach of promise, breach of trust, breach of faith, prodition, disloyalty, treason, high treason, apostasy, nonobservance, shabbiness, villainy, villany, baseness, abjection, debasement, turpitude, moral turpitude, laxity, trimming, shuffling, perfidy, perfidiousness, treachery, double dealing, unfairness, knavery, roguery, rascality, foul play, jobbing, jobbery, graft, bribery, venality, nepotism, corruption, job, shuffle, fishy transaction, barratry, sharp practice, heads I win tails you lose, mouth honor, dishonest, dishonorable, unconscientious, unscrupulous, fraudulent, knavish, disgraceful, wicked, false-hearted, disingenuous, unfair, one-sided, double, double- hearted, double-tongued, double-faced, timeserving, crooked, tortuous, insidious, Machiavelian, dark, slippery, fishy, perfidious, treacherous, perjured, infamous, arrant, foul, base, vile, ignominious, blackguard, contemptible, unrespectable, abject, mean, shabby, little, paltry, dirty, scurvy, scabby, sneaking, groveling, scrubby, rascally, pettifogging, beneath one, low-minded, low-thoughted, base-minded, undignified, indign, unbecoming, unbeseeming, unbefitting, derogatory, degrading, infra dignitatem, beneath one's dignity, ungentlemanly, ungentlemanlike, unknightly, unchivalric, unmanly, unhandsome, recreant, inglorious, corrupt, venal, debased, mongrel, faithless, of bad faith, false, unfaithful, disloyal, untrustworthy, trustless, trothless, lost to shame, dead to honor, barratrous, dishonestly, mala fide, like a thief in the night, by crooked paths, Int, O tempora!, O mores!, corruptissima respublica plurimae leges.