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English
Etymology
From under- + honest.
Adjective
underhonest (comparative more underhonest, superlative most underhonest)
- Not entirely honest.
c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iii]:[…] we think him over-proud
And under-honest,
1998, Warren S. Browner, chapter 4, in Publishing and Presenting Clinical Research, Baltimore: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, page 39:Clinical research is never perfect so there is no need to pretend otherwise. Avoid being underhonest. Acknowledge the little errors.
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