What is another word for dishonest?
853 synonyms found
Pronunciation:
[ dɪsˈɒnɪst], [ dɪsˈɒnɪst], [ d_ɪ_s_ˈɒ_n_ɪ_s_t]
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Similar words for dishonest:
- all (adjective)
- below the belt (adjective)
- bribable (adjective)
- canting (adjective)
- cheap (adjective)
- crooked (adjective)
- deceptive (adjective)
- dishonest (adjective)
- disingenuous (adjective)
- double-dealing (adjective)
- double-faced (adjective)
- empty (adjective)
- faithless (adjective)
- false (adjective)
- false-hearted (adjective)
- fictitious (adjective)
- foxy (adjective)
- fraudulent (adjective)
- immoral (adjective)
- insidious (adjective)
- invented (adjective)
- lying, untruthful (adjective)
- misbegotten (adjective)
- other relevant words (adjective)
- quack (adjective)
- roguish (adjective)
- shifty (adjective)
- sinister (adjective)
- slippery (adjective)
- sly (adjective)
- strategic (adjective)
- thieving/thievish (adjective)
- tricky (adjective)
- trumped up (adjective)
- two-faced (adjective)
- unconscionable (adjective)
- underhand (adjective)
- underhanded (adjective)
- unfair (adjective)
- unholy (adjective)
- unprincipled (adjective)
- unscrupulous (adjective)
- untrustworthy (adjective)
- venal (adjective)
- wrongful (adjective)
- ambidextrous (noun)
- beguiling (noun)
- blackguardly (noun)
- bribable (noun)
- deceitful (noun)
- deceptive (noun)
- dishonest (noun)
- other relevant words (verb)
- other synonyms
- Janus-faced
- corrupt
- deceitful
- honorable
- other relevant words (noun)
Synonyms for Dishonest:
adj.
• all (adjective) • below the belt (adjective)- un just,
- un-sportsmanlike,
- un sportsmanlike,
- un-justest,
- un-juster,
- dis honest,
- below belt,
- dis-honest,
- un justest,
- un-just,
- un juster.
- felonious,
- Prevaricating,
- Deceiving,
- turncoat,
- treacherous,
- crafty,
- cheating,
- devious,
- insincere,
- traitorous,
- hypocritical.
- hypo-critical,
- in-sincere,
- left handed,
- more two-timing,
- more two timing,
- most two timing,
- in sincere,
- most swindling,
- more swindling,
- double-dealing,
- in-sincerer,
- in-sincerest,
- most twotiming,
- lefthanded,
- in sincerest,
- doubledealing,
- hypo critical,
- in sincerer,
- more twotiming,
- perfidious,
- most two-timing.
- in effectual,
- in-sipid,
- in sipid,
- in-expressive,
- empty,
- un real,
- un-satisfactory,
- un satisfactory,
- de-void,
- de void,
- un substantial,
- un intelligent,
- meaningless,
- un-real,
- un-substantial,
- in expressive,
- in-effectual,
- un-intelligent,
- trivial.
- most changeful,
- in constant,
- un-true,
- most unloyal,
- doubting,
- more unloyal,
- most double-crossing,
- more double-crossing,
- most fluctuating,
- most double crossing,
- un loyal,
- un-stable,
- most unconverted,
- most doublecrossing,
- un converted,
- un reliable,
- un-faithful,
- un faithful,
- un true,
- un-loyal,
- more fluctuating,
- un truer,
- un-converted,
- un stable,
- un-truer,
- more double crossing,
- more doublecrossing,
- more unconverted,
- un truest,
- in-constant,
- un stabler,
- un-believing,
- un-truest,
- un stablest,
- un-stablest,
- un believing,
- more changeful,
- un-reliable,
- un-stabler.
- cooked-up,
- Deluding,
- fictional,
- phony,
- Misrepresentative,
- off the mark,
- casuistic,
- Truthless,
- contrary to fact,
- counterfeit,
- bogus,
- inexact,
- sophistical.
- re probate,
- un-chaste,
- un-ethical,
- un ethical,
- un cleanest,
- un-cleanest,
- re-probate,
- un clean,
- un cleaner,
- most saturnalian,
- in-decent,
- x rated,
- dis-solute,
- un-chastest,
- in decent,
- un-cleaner,
- un chaster,
- more saturnalian,
- un chaste,
- xrated,
- un chastest,
- un-chaster,
- dis solute.
- guileful,
- sneaky,
- elusive,
- Swindling,
- villainous,
- two-timing,
- shady,
- unctuous,
- recreant,
- Bluffing,
- designing,
- hoodwinking,
- double-crossing,
- Backbiting.
- shorthanded,
- Canting,
- streetwise,
- exploitative,
- immoral,
- disingenuous,
- trumped up,
- malefic,
- unconscientious,
- sticky-fingered,
- Trustless,
- dodgy,
- unfair,
- kleptomaniacal,
- lowdown,
- Double dealing,
- unsporting,
- Witted,
- unscrupulous,
- unprincipled,
- low-down,
- crooked,
- cheap,
- Retiary,
- unconverted,
- changeful,
- slippery,
- misbegotten,
- strategic,
- underhanded,
- two-faced,
- fair-weather,
- False-hearted,
- buyable,
- wrongful,
- shifty,
- prevaricatory,
- Spoliative,
- Saturnalian,
- false,
- blackhearted,
- unsanctified,
- fictitious,
- Piratic,
- fraudulent,
- tricky,
- prevaricative,
- of easy virtue,
- irreverential,
- unassured,
- Doomful,
- venal,
- plunderous,
- quack,
- roguish,
- sly,
- un-sanctified,
- falsehearted,
- underhand,
- double-faced,
- fair weather,
- un-hallowed,
- untrusty,
- faithless,
- unloyal,
- insidious,
- untrustworthy,
- unconscionable,
- unrightful,
- sinister,
- below the belt,
- sneaking.
- more equivocating,
- more conniving,
- more shuffling,
- more contriving,
- most unhonest,
- most dodging,
- more prevaricative,
- Unhonest,
- most contriving,
- more prevaricatory,
- most conniving,
- more unhonest,
- fly by night,
- un honest,
- more dodging,
- most equivocating,
- most prevaricatory,
- most prevaricative,
- un-honest,
- most shuffling.
- illboding,
- portentous,
- un luckier,
- ill boding,
- dis-quieting,
- un luckiest,
- dis quieting,
- un-lucky,
- fore boding,
- most blackhearted,
- Ill-boding,
- un lucky,
- most malefic,
- more doomful,
- un propitious,
- more foreboding,
- in-auspicious,
- un favorable,
- un-favorable,
- un fortunate,
- fore-boding,
- more blackhearted,
- most foreboding,
- most doomful,
- un-luckier,
- un-fortunate,
- in auspicious,
- more malefic.
- in-securer,
- in securer,
- un safe,
- in securest,
- un-safest,
- un steadiest,
- in-securest,
- mutable,
- un steadier,
- un predictable,
- un safest,
- un safer,
- in secure,
- un-steadier,
- in-secure,
- un steady,
- un-safe,
- un-predictable,
- un-steadiest,
- un-safer.
- more stickyfingered,
- light-fingered,
- more piratic,
- more light-fingered,
- most lightfingered,
- most piratic,
- most kleptomaniacal,
- lightfingered,
- most plunderous,
- more kleptomaniacal,
- stickyfingered,
- more sticky fingered,
- most light fingered,
- most sticky-fingered,
- most stickyfingered,
- more spoliative,
- most light-fingered,
- sticky fingered,
- most sticky fingered,
- more plunderous,
- more sticky-fingered,
- light fingered,
- more lightfingered,
- more pilfering,
- more light fingered,
- most pilfering,
- most spoliative.
- un due,
- most amoral,
- un godliest,
- un civilized,
- un-godliest,
- un-conscionable,
- un duest,
- in-ordinate,
- un-civilized,
- un godlier,
- un reasonable,
- un godly,
- more amoral,
- un-godly,
- un conscionable,
- un-due,
- un-duest,
- un-duer,
- un-reasonable,
- un-godlier.
- in excusable,
- uncalledfor,
- un sporting,
- in equitable,
- dis criminatory,
- un-fair,
- dis creditable,
- un-warranted,
- dis-creditable,
- one sided,
- onesided,
- un-fairer,
- un fairest,
- more unsporting,
- un-fairest,
- most unrightful,
- in-excusable,
- un justifiable,
- un-justifiable,
- un rightful,
- dis-criminatory,
- more unrightful,
- un fairer,
- un fair,
- un-sporting,
- un-rightful,
- in-equitable,
- most unsporting.
- most unsanctified,
- pro-fane,
- un-holier,
- godless,
- pro fane,
- un-holy,
- un holier,
- more irreverential,
- un sanctified,
- un holy,
- un hallowed,
- un holiest,
- more unsanctified,
- un-holiest,
- most irreverential.
- more unconscientious,
- de grading,
- more lowdown,
- most unconscientious,
- de-graded,
- un worthy,
- most lowdown,
- un worthier,
- most exploitative,
- de graded,
- selfseeking,
- un-scrupulous,
- more low-down,
- un worthiest,
- more exploitative,
- un-conscientious,
- self seeking,
- low down,
- un-worthiest,
- un scrupulous,
- more low down,
- un conscientious,
- de-grading,
- un-worthier.
- more trustless,
- un dependable,
- un-trusty,
- finkest,
- more unassured,
- more fair-weather,
- un-trustiest,
- un sure,
- most fair-weather,
- un-dependable,
- most unassured,
- un assured,
- un-trustier,
- un trustiest,
- un-trustworthy,
- un trustier,
- untrustier,
- un trusty,
- dis-loyal,
- fairweather,
- un trustworthy,
- un-sure,
- more fair weather,
- most fairweather,
- most fair weather,
- more fairweather,
- untrustiest,
- un-assured,
- dis loyal,
- finker,
- most trustless.
n.
• ambidextrous (noun) • beguiling (noun) • blackguardly (noun) • bribable (noun) • deceitful (noun) • deceptive (noun) • dishonest (noun)v.
• Other relevant words: (verb)Other synonyms:
• Janus-faced-
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- grubby,
- machiavellian,
- wily,
- conniving,
- knavish,
- shonky,
- tricksy,
- disreputable,
- unworthy,
- unreliable,
- sleazy,
- unethical,
- fly-by-night,
- fast-talking,
- foxy.
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- dubious,
- cunning,
- lousy,
- funny,
- questionable,
- artful,
- shameful,
- lying,
- spitball,
- mendacious.
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- manipulative,
- shabby.
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- bent.
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- clever.
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- low.
-
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- sharp.
- disparage,
- indistinct,
- duplicity,
- feigning,
- furtive,
- double,
- illegitimate,
- factitious,
- Fiendish,
- indefinite,
- dishonesty,
- diabolic,
- no,
- betrayal,
- framed,
- Perjured,
- aquiline,
- specious,
- be dishonest,
- imp,
- bum,
- malicious,
- delusory,
- humbug,
- paste,
- blameworthy,
- wrong,
- pretending,
- unholy,
- evil,
- conspiratorial,
- crook,
- perfidiously,
- pretended,
- faux,
- filthy,
- dishonourable,
- deceivingly,
- unsportsmanlike,
- inconstant,
- sincere,
- abusive,
- break one's word,
- shrewdly,
- plain,
- dishonestly,
- abominable,
- artificial,
- pettifogging,
- debased,
- discreditable,
- windblown,
- left,
- dreadful,
- injustice,
- jilt,
- deceptively,
- fly,
- not kosher,
- treacherously,
- suppress,
- uncertain,
- twisted,
- falsify,
- deceive,
- hide,
- assume,
- treasonable,
- sham,
- misleadingly,
- decadent,
- fishy,
- vile,
- undependable,
- faking,
- wrongly,
- arranged,
- terrible,
- Misled,
- falsely,
- praetorian,
- prearranged,
- slant,
- corrupted,
- forbidden,
- dastardly,
- tainted,
- foul,
- shameless,
- reprehensible,
- unlawful,
- swindle,
- incorrectly,
- bad,
- equivocal,
- jaundiced,
- rascal,
- mealymouthed,
- mock,
- impostor,
- scoundrel,
- crookedness,
- reprobate,
- sinful,
- betray,
- unfairness,
- unaesthetic,
- fibbing,
- impure,
- naughty,
- treasonous,
- circumvent,
- sanctimonious,
- warped,
- shoddy,
- disguise,
- capricious,
- dirty,
- iniquity,
- play false,
- opprobrious,
- dissimulate,
- Uningenuous,
- falsehood,
- cover up,
- deception,
- larcenous,
- amoral,
- corruption,
- fraudulently,
- untrue,
- affect,
- unauthorized,
- ENG,
- pharisaic,
- lie,
- murderous,
- poor,
- fraud,
- malevolent,
- injudicious,
- astutely,
- incurved,
- pretend,
- shifting,
- Ill-got,
- tortuous,
- distorted,
- pseudo,
- conscienceless,
- ungenuine,
- lubricious,
- depraved,
- snide,
- despicable,
- deceitfully,
- cheatingly,
- coloured,
- ersatz,
- Hollowly,
- unfairly,
- reptilian,
- cheater,
- unregenerate,
- trick,
- secretive,
- camouflage,
- hypocritically,
- jesuitic,
- canny,
- bamboozle,
- biased,
- suspect,
- artfully,
- cheat,
- sexist,
- prejudiced,
- defraud,
- criminal,
- craftily,
- hollow,
- belie,
- liar,
- surreptitious,
- phoney,
- capriciously,
- imitation,
- rogue,
- fixed,
- conceal,
- shrewd,
- flagitious,
- unsavory,
- unserious,
- unfaithful,
- cunningly,
- insincerely,
- mendaciously,
- iniquitous,
- disloyal,
- bigoted,
- beguile,
- awful,
- jesuitical,
- oblique,
- preconceived,
- Fiendly,
- nefarious,
- opinionated,
- partial,
- feign,
- synthetic,
- swindler,
- Subreptitious,
- fake,
- Improbity,
- Unhandsome,
- dissimulating,
- delude,
- perverse,
- set up,
- deviously,
- shiftily,
- Trothless,
- cronk,
- pawky,
- calculating,
- suspicious,
- cowboy,
- for sale,
- trickery,
- base,
- mean,
- dissembling,
- sell,
- fickle,
- Defrauding,
- confuse,
- unfaithfully,
- Forsworn,
- Unveracious,
- Plotting,
- infernal,
- unjustly,
- illicit,
- insidiously,
- oily,
- unreal,
- lawless,
- unjust,
- tendentious,
- improper,
- vulpine,
- shuffle,
- crummy,
- wicked,
- slick,
- dissemble,
- Corrupter,
- rigged,
- unfounded,
- deceitfulness,
- slimy,
- trickily,
- inglorious,
- disgraceful,
- deceit,
- forswear,
- jackleg,
- disgrace,
- perverted,
- simulate,
- Contriving,
- indirect,
- degenerate,
- dissolute,
- unmoral,
- doubtful,
- spurious,
- dark,
- double-minded,
- knave,
- arty,
- irresponsible,
- untruthfully,
- mealy-mouthed,
- break one's promise,
- scheming,
- cagey,
- put-up,
- ill-gotten,
- smooth,
- Time-serving,
- abandoned,
- Hollow-hearted,
- Doublehearted.
How to use "Dishonest" in context?
The word "dishonest" often comes to mind when it comes to dishonest behaviors. People might think of someone who is dishonest when they cheat on a test, or when they deceive someone. But there are many other types of dishonest behaviors. Someone might be dishonest when they lie, or when they cheat on an exam. Each of these behaviors is different, and each has consequences. Lying can lead to criminal charges, and cheating can lead to expulsion from school or a bad grade. All of these consequences can be serious, and they can affect someone's life. So, being dishonest is not always a good thing to do.
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Equivalence
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Adjective
fraudulent.
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Noun, singular or mass
fraudulent.
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Adjective
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Forward Entailment
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Adjective, superlative
honest.
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Adjective
honest.
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Adjective, superlative
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Independent
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Noun, singular or mass
distortion, honesty.
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Noun, singular or mass
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Other Related
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Adjective
deceitful, dishonourable, disingenuous, indecent, misleading, rogue, unfair, unscrupulous, untruthful, sexual.
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Noun, singular or mass
deceit, dishonesty, indecent, rogue.
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Adjective
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