What's the difference between catso and dishonest?

Catso


Definition:

  • (n.) A base fellow; a rogue; a cheat.

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Dishonest


Definition:

  • (a.) Dishonorable; shameful; indecent; unchaste; lewd.
  • (a.) Dishonored; disgraced; disfigured.
  • (a.) Wanting in honesty; void of integrity; faithless; disposed to cheat or defraud; not trustworthy; as, a dishonest man.
  • (a.) Characterized by fraud; indicating a want of probity; knavish; fraudulent; unjust.
  • (v. t.) To disgrace; to dishonor; as, to dishonest a maid.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In a single letter in February 2005, Charles urged a badger cull to prevent the spread of bovine tuberculosis – damning opponents to the cull as “intellectually dishonest”; lobbied for his preferred person to be appointed to crack down on the mistreatment of farmers by supermarkets; proposed his own aide to brief Downing Street on the design of new hospitals; and urged Blair to tackle an EU directive limiting the use of herbal alternative medicines in the UK.
  • (2) Cellino was initially disqualified in December when the League ruled a first-grade conviction for tax evasion on a yacht in Sardinia was a “dishonest offence” and that he was therefore in breach of the organisation’s owners’ and directors’ test.
  • (3) Reader was previously jailed for a total of nine years for conspiracy to handle stolen goods and dishonestly handling cash, after the £26m robbery at the Brink’s-Mat warehouse near Heathrow airport in 1983.
  • (4) The League ruled that because the tax offence involving the yacht Nelie had been confirmed by the Italian judge to have been a dishonest act, Cellino failed its owners and directors test.
  • (5) Student and faculty definitions of dishonest behavior were compared, and the incidence of dishonest behavior and the experiences of faculty in recognizing and disciplining students for academic misconduct were analyzed.
  • (6) The top eight adjectives they chose were: envious, stiff, industrious, nature loving, quiet, honest, dishonest, xenophobic.
  • (7) Explaining why they continue to increase the size of the UN consolidated appeal each year, despite not acheiving full funding year-on-year, Larke said: “We base our ask on the real needs we assess, not on the money we expect to get - to do so the other way round would be dishonest.
  • (8) Obama claimed budgets under Bush involved "dishonest accounting" because they had not included the costs of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan but his does.
  • (9) The QC stated in his decision allowing that appeal: “If the reasoned ruling of the court in Cagliari discloses the conduct of Mr Cellino was such it would reasonably be considered to be dishonest, he would be [disqualified].” The League applied to the court in Cagliari for those written reasons, and once it had received them its board took the view the conviction did constitute a dishonest act and disqualified Cellino.
  • (10) A normal American could have his home taken away from him due to a dishonest mortgage and no one in Washington blinked – but when a banker calls Treasury in a panic about losing out on some debt, a Swat team of Washington policymakers rushes to the scene.
  • (11) For anyone to say it doesn't have an effect is dishonest."
  • (12) Secondly, and potentially more damaging to News International, Hunt is to ask whether the assurances given by Murdoch about the editorial independence of Sky News need to be viewed in a new light given that senior NI figures appear to have been dishonest in their answers to a parliamentary select committee, the police and the Press Complaints Commission, as well as to the wider public.
  • (13) Apparently Trump wasn’t aware of the fantastical but common Republican refrain that while abortion should be illegal, women themselves shouldn’t be punished – a diplomatic but wholly dishonest response in a country where women have already been jailed for ending their pregnancies .
  • (14) It is, if I can reiterate, a deeply dishonest politics when it comes to pretending that your opponents believe something they don't … I've been told she was speaking in relation to lower-income families.
  • (15) The chamber spent a considerable period of time investigating the circumstances of a substantial number of individuals whose evidence was, at least in part, inaccurate or dishonest".
  • (16) The comic, author and actor was a guest on Radio 4's Desert Island Discs, where he said the "dishonest scandal" was created by "privately owned media with a pre-existing agenda [ie the Daily Mail] to attack the BBC".
  • (17) Boris Johnson accused of 'dishonest gymnastics' over TTIP U-turn Read more “But fundamentally, what is lacking is the eternal problem, which is that there is no underlying loyalty to the idea of Europe .
  • (18) It added that the BCA accepted Singh's previous assertion that he had never intended to suggest it had been dishonest "which goes some way to vindicating its position".
  • (19) You know you are desperate for ratings when you are willing to violate the law to push a story about two pages of tax returns from over a decade ago,” it said in a statement emailed to journalists with unusual zeal and which also repeated the Trump trope of “the dishonest media”.
  • (20) He had also grown disillusioned with his own role as a propagandist, his contorted attempt to distinguish between 'honest' and 'dishonest' propaganda evidently having failed.

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