Definitions for dishonest

dishonest dis·hon·est

Spelling: [dis-on-ist]
IPA: /dɪsˈɒn ɪst/

Dishonest is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 461 anagrams from letters in dishonest (dehinosst).

Definitions for dishonest

adjective

  1. not honest; disposed to lie, cheat, or steal; not worthy of trust or belief:
  2. proceeding from or exhibiting lack of honesty; fraudulent:

Origin of dishonest

1350-1400; Middle English dishoneste Anglo-French, Old French deshoneste, equivalent to des- dis-1 + honeste honest

Examples for dishonest

She never lied to him or was dishonest to him, and we were very careful to point that out in the movie, but Tom needed to grow up.

And is any mode of acquisition, even if unjust and dishonest, equally to be deemed virtue?

"If you think it dishonourable or dishonest—" said Beaufort, irresolutely.

And then Jed Winslow did what was perhaps the first dishonest thing he had ever done.

How can the police do that if the community views them as dishonest, or even dangerous?

Among them is a distinction between “honest graft” and “dishonest graft.”

In fact he wrote that he thought it all wrong, deceitful, bordering on the dishonest.

Bureaucracies are inefficient and dishonest—maybe not intentionally . . . but because there are too many moving parts.

Trying to put the onus onto someone else for your own decisions is really cowardly and kind of dishonest.

I dare say it was because I had been so dishonest myself just before.

Word Value for dishonest
Scrable

13

Words with friends

13

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