(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.
Dishonesty
Definition:
(n.) Dishonor; dishonorableness; shame.
(n.) Want of honesty, probity, or integrity in principle; want of fairness and straightforwardness; a disposition to defraud, deceive, or betray; faithlessness.
(n.) Violation of trust or of justice; fraud; any deviation from probity; a dishonest act.
(n.) Lewdness; unchastity.
Example Sentences:
(1) In its statement, the league did not give details of the judgment, but made it clear that in its opinion, dishonesty by Cellino had been found.
(2) Sophisticated dishonesty can escape detection by peer review and replication.
(3) The Tory call last week for higher wages was breathtaking dishonesty, echoing the TUC’s “Britain Needs a Pay Rise” campaign.
(4) Before Laspo, cases of false imprisonment were always funded by legal aid and restricting funding only to dishonesty cases was never the stated intention of parliament.
(5) But Harvey said that, if the written verdict could be interpreted as finding Cellino guilty of dishonesty, then there was a chance he could still be barred from owning the club.
(6) He was a reactionary only in reacting against intellectual dishonesty and imposture.
(7) And in passing we should note Campbell's professional dishonesty in denying at the time that there was a breakdown between the prime minister and his chancellor and later, while Brown was in power, publishing extracts that misrepresented, by omission, the foul relationship between them.
(8) Cellino’s position as Leeds owner could therefore be in jeopardy as the Football League’s owners’ and directors’ test disqualifies individuals who “have unspent convictions for offences of dishonesty”.
(9) The shadow chancellor said it "will come down to honesty versus dishonesty", as parties battle for votes ahead of the general election, which is expected to take place on 6 May.
(10) Johnson is the master-builder of that image, deflecting every lie, every gaffe, dishonesty and U-turn with some self-deprecating metaphor: calling his feigned indecision “veering all over the place like a shopping trolley” was worth a world of worthy platitudes.
(11) A reference in an internal Leigh Day email to paying “bribes” was not a question of promoting dishonesty, Robertson said, but merely an expression of frustration by Malik at having to pay the Iraqi claimants for employment leave so that they could travel outside Iraq to record their legal statements.
(12) Because of the problems of dishonesty, fraud, and conflict of interest, academic medical institutions must establish codes of conduct to govern professional life.
(13) On VW’s Facebook page and on other online forums that cater to Volkswagen fans, there have been numerous comments posted by people angry about the automaker’s dishonesty.
(14) Gashi, who has been convicted for dishonesty, admitted lying in a police statement about the kidnap case.
(15) I suggest to him that he is paying the price not just for specific broken promises but for a deeper intellectual dishonesty at the heart of that broadcast.
(16) From the right, conservatives want to tar Democrats with a double brush of dishonesty, hoping it will boost a double election effect.
(17) And there is not a parliament in the world that would impose a national income tax on only some of the country but not on all of the country.” Brown accused David Cameron of dishonesty in failing to explain his plans in clear terms to the people of Scotland during the referendum campaign.
(18) Increasing coauthorship responsibility, conscientious senior investigator supervision, and institutional cooperation will provide the framework to discourage dishonesty in science and encourage proper educational development of both young and established investigators in a milieu of scientific integrity.
(19) "There is a widespread dishonesty about standards in English schools and low aspiration," he claims, before complaining that there is "a common view that only a small fraction of the population … should be given a reasonably advanced mathematical and scientific education" while many other pupils leave school with little more than basic numeracy.
(20) However much of a good thing the EU might be – and I would like to think it is a huge benefit – it is alarming that there has been so much behind-the-scenes manipulation and dishonesty in representing those benefits to the British electorate.