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English
Etymology
From Middle English dishoneste (“dishonourable”), from Old French deshoneste, from Latin dehonestus. Equivalent to dis- + honest. Displaced native Old English unsōþfæst.
Pronunciation
Adjective
dishonest (comparative more dishonest, superlative most dishonest)
- Not honest; shoddy.
- Interfering with honesty.
- (obsolete) Dishonourable; shameful; indecent; unchaste; lewd.
- (obsolete) Dishonoured; disgraced; disfigured.
1697, Virgil, “The Sixth Book of the Æneis”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. , London: Jacob Tonson, , →OCLC:Dishonest with lopped arms the youth appears, / Spoiled of his nose and shortened of his ears.
Antonyms
Derived terms
Collocations
Collocations
- dishonest man
- dishonest person
- dishonest people
- dishonest act
- dishonest means
- dishonest way
- dishonest thing
- dishonest practices
- dishonest conduct
- dishonest behavior
- dishonest employee
- dishonest appropriation
- dishonest assistance
- dishonest gain
Translations
not honest
- Arabic: مُخَادِع (muḵādiʕ), غَشَاش (ḡašāš)
- Egyptian Arabic: مخادع (muḵādeʕ), غشاش (ḡašāš)
- Armenian: անազնիվ (hy) (anazniv)
- Belarusian: несумле́нны (njesumljénny), нячэ́сны (njačésny)
- Bulgarian: нече́стен (bg) (nečésten), непочтен (bg) (nepočten)
- Catalan: deshonest (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 不誠實 / 不诚实 (bù chéngshí)
- Czech: nečestný, nepoctivý (cs)
- Danish: uærlig (da)
- Dutch: oneerlijk (nl), onoprecht (nl)
- Finnish: epärehellinen (fi)
- French: malhonnête (fr)
- German: unehrlich (de)
- Gothic: 𐌻𐌹𐌿𐍄𐍃 (liuts)
- Greek: άτιμος (el) (átimos), ανέντιμος (el) (anéntimos)
- Hindi: बेईमान (hi) (beīmān)
- Hungarian: becstelen (hu)
- Hunsrik: uneherlich
- Irish: ainionraic, mí-ionraic, mímhacánta
- Italian: disonesto (it)
- Japanese: 不正直 (ふしょうじき, fushōjiki)
- Korean: 부정직하다 (ko) (bujeongjikhada)
- Latin: fraudulentus, perfidus (la)
- Maori: raureka, tāhae
- Middle English: unhoneste
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: uærlig
- Nynorsk: uærleg
- Old English: unsōþfæst
- Polish: nieuczciwy (pl) m
- Portuguese: desonesto (pt) m
- Romanian: necinstit (ro)
- Russian: нече́стный (ru) (nečéstnyj), бесче́стный (ru) (besčéstnyj)
- Sanskrit: कौट (sa) (kauṭa)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: нѐискрен
- Roman: nèiskren (sh)
- Slovene: neiskrén m
- Spanish: embustero (es), mentiroso (es), deshonesto (es)
- Swedish: oärlig (sv)
- Ukrainian: нече́сний (nečésnyj), несумлі́нний (nesumlínnyj)
- Welsh: anonest (cy)
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References
Further reading
- “dishonest”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- “dishonest”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- “dishonest”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
- “dishonest”, in Collins English Dictionary.
- “dishonest” (US) / “dishonest” (UK) in Macmillan English Dictionary.
Anagrams
Middle English
Adjective
dishonest
- Alternative form of dishoneste (“disgraceful”)