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déshonnête (plural déshonnêtes)
- that is contrary to the proprieties, against common decency
- Garce avait un sens très bon, on l'a rendu déshonnête ; Aujourd'hui, fille est devenu déshonnête à son tour en certains cas ; on ne peut plus dire une pension de filles, il faut dire : de jeunes filles ou de jeunes personnes ; où s'arrêtera-t-on ? (Dorothée Aquino-Weber, Sara Cotelli, Andres Kristol, Sociolinguistique historique du domaine gallo-roman : enjeux et methodologies, Berne, 2009)
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