Antonyms for dishonesty
dɪsˈɒn ə stidis·hon·esty

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1. dishonestynoun

   Antonyms:
   honesty

2. dishonestynoun

   Antonyms:
   honesty

3. dishonestynoun

   Antonyms:
   honesty

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. dishonesty

   A fraud is an act of deliberate deception with the design of securing something by taking unfair advantage of another. A deceit or deception may be designed merely to gain some end of one's own, with no intent of harming another; an imposition, to take some small advantage of another, or simply to make another ridiculous. An imposture is designed to obtain money, credit, or position to which one is not entitled, and may be practised by a street beggar or by the pretender to a throne. All action that is not honest is dishonesty, but the term dishonesty is generally applied in business, politics, etc., to deceitful practises which are not directly criminal. Fraud includes deceit, but deceit may not reach the gravity of fraud; a cheat is of the nature of fraud, but of a petty sort; a swindle is more serious than a cheat, involving larger values and more flagrant dishonesty. Fraud is commonly actionable at law; cheating and swindling are for the most part out of the reach of legal proceedings. Treachery is chiefly used of dishonesty in matters of friendship, social relations, government, or war; treachery may be more harmful than fraud, but is not so gross, and is not ordinarily open to legal redress. Treason is a specific form of treachery of a subject to the government to which he owes allegiance, and is definable and punishable at law. Compare ARTIFICE; DECEPTION.

   Antonyms:
   fairness, good faith, honesty, integrity, truth, uprightness

   Synonyms:
   artifice, cheat, cheating, deceit, deception, duplicity, fraud, imposition, imposture, swindle, swindling, treachery, treason, trick

Matched Categories

1. • Unrighteousness
   • Wrongdoing

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. dishonestynoun

   the quality of being dishonest

   Antonyms:
   honestness, honesty

   Synonyms:
   knavery

2. dishonesty, knaverynoun

   lack of honesty; acts of lying or cheating or stealing

   Antonyms:
   honesty, honestness

   Synonyms:
   knavery

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1. dishonestynoun

   Synonyms:
   improbity, unscrupulousness, fraudulence, cheating, indirection

How to use dishonesty in a sentence?

1. Rick Gorka:

   This is the number one hit against Elizabeth Warren - her dishonesty.

2. Marco Rubio-Ted Cruz:

   There is a culture of dishonesty from top-to-bottom in the Ted Cruz campaign.

3. Horace Mann:

   Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.

4. Tom Hayes on Thursday:

   No, not at all, it has nothing to do with honesty or dishonesty.

5. John Steinbeck:

   The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty.

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