(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.
(a.) The quality or state of being honest; probity; fairness and straightforwardness of conduct, speech, etc.; integrity; sincerity; truthfulness; freedom from fraud or guile.
(a.) Chastity; modesty.
(a.) Satin flower; the name of two cruciferous herbs having large flat pods, the round shining partitions of which are more beautiful than the blossom; -- called also lunary and moonwort. Lunaria biennis is common honesty; L. rediva is perennial honesty.
Example Sentences:
(1) Trump and Hillary Clinton’s dismal honesty ratings, he says, show scrutiny is working.
(2) The authors conducted the course together and an atmosphere of intellectual honesty was developed through open discussion between faculty and students.
(3) Hunt’s comments were, in many senses, a restatement of traditional, economically liberal ideas on relationships between doing wage work and poverty relief, mirroring, for example, arguments of the 1834 poor law commissioners, which suggested wage supplements diminished the skills, honesty and diligence of the labourer, and the more recent claim of Iain Duncan Smith’s Centre for Social Justice that the earned pound was “superior” to that received in benefits.
(4) Also on Monday, rock musician and leading opponent of the cull Brian May issued a call for Paterson to resign, claiming he had failed to meet the public's expectation of "honesty and transparency".
(5) During a break between Detective Frost and Whitechapel, I decided to have a farewell glass of port in the honesty bar adjacent to the library.
(6) The battery assesses constructs related to honesty, violence, substance abuse, emotional stability and safety.
(7) (part 1 of 2) #mufc April 22, 2014 Manchester United (@ManUtd) BREAKING: The club would like to place on record its thanks for the hard work, honesty and integrity he brought to the role.
(8) The prayer appeals for “grace to debate the issues in this referendum with honesty and openness”.
(9) Hopefully these observations will help bring some honesty to the debate about alcohol, which kills up to 40,000 people a year in the UK and over 2.25 million worldwide in the latest 2011 WHO report .
(10) But for those Eurosceptics he needed to secure the party leadership, the realignment was an act of honesty and principle since the Tories oppose the Lisbon treaty and are utterly at odds with Europe's dominant Christian Democrats.
(11) An NHS trust's lack of honesty caused "unnecessary pain and further distress" to a family who had already suffered from the tragic and avoidable death of a baby boy, the health service ombudsman has said in the latest scathing verdict on the defensive culture within the health service.
(12) I am truly saddened by Dick’s decision but I respect him for his honesty and for doing what he feels is right for the club,” said Sunderland’s owner.
(13) The diplomats told Washington that certain themes in American movies seemed to appeal to the Saudi audience: heroic honesty in the face of corruption (George Clooney in Michael Clayton), supportive behaviour in relationships (an unspecified drama that was repeated during an Eid holiday featuring an American husband dealing with a drunk wife who smashed cars and crockery when she wasn't assaulting him and their child), and respect for the law over self-interest (Al Pacino and Robin Williams in Insomnia).
(14) It is necessary to face the problem with complete intellectual honesty and say that a fetus is a human being no matter what its age, but that voluntary abortion is also a social necessity.
(15) Envelopes stuffed with cash, it is claimed, were their reward for ensuring Blatter beat Lennart Johansson, the 'honesty' candidate, to become the soccer world's most powerful leader.
(16) Rather they are a plea for greater honesty in the evaluation process.
(17) Now that the book is published, does she regret such naked honesty?
(18) Today's verdict ‑ the striking-off of Wakefield and Prof John Walker-Smith, who was in charge of the department of paediatric gastroenterology at the Royal Free hospital in London, where the research took place and the acquittal of the-then junior consultant Simon Murch, who had doubts about the project ‑ was about ethics and honesty, not science.
(19) But the frailty of a three-minute song – the concise honesty of that expression – amazes me and turns me into a bucket of jealousy.
(20) 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.