DISHONESTY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dishonesty mean? 

• DISHONESTY (noun)
  The noun DISHONESTY has 2 senses:

1. the quality of being dishonest

2. lack of honesty; acts of lying or cheating or stealing

  Familiarity information: DISHONESTY used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DISHONESTY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality of being dishonest

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("dishonesty" is a kind of...):

unrighteousness (failure to adhere to moral principles)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "dishonesty"):

corruption; corruptness (lack of integrity or honesty (especially susceptibility to bribery); use of a position of trust for dishonest gain)

unscrupulousness (the quality of unscrupulous dishonesty)

deceptiveness; obliquity (the quality of being deceptive)

deceit; fraudulence (the quality of being fraudulent)

crookedness; deviousness (the quality of being deceitful and underhanded)

rascality; shiftiness; slipperiness; trickiness (the quality of being a slippery rascal)

larcenous; thievishness (having a disposition to steal)

untruthfulness (the quality of being untruthful)

disingenuousness (the quality of being disingenuous and lacking candor)

Antonym:

honesty (the quality of being honest)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Lack of honesty; acts of lying or cheating or stealing

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

dishonesty; knavery

Hypernyms ("dishonesty" is a kind of...):

actus reus; misconduct; wrongdoing; wrongful conduct (activity that transgresses moral or civil law)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "dishonesty"):

betrayal; perfidy; treachery; treason (an act of deliberate betrayal)

charlatanism; quackery (the dishonesty of a charlatan)

trick (an attempt to get you to do something foolish or imprudent)

falsehood; falsification (the act of rendering something false as by fraudulent changes (of documents or measures etc.) or counterfeiting)

 Context examples 

If from no better motive, that he should not have been too proud to be dishonest—for dishonesty I must call it.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Dishonesty in a woman is a thing you never blame deeply—I was casually sorry, and then I forgot.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)