dishonest

English

Etymology

Old French deshoneste, from Latin dehonestus. See dis-, honest

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /dɪˈsɒnɪst/
• (US) IPA^(key): /dɨˈsɑnɪst/

Adjective

dishonest (comparative more dishonest, superlative most dishonest)

1. Not honest.
2. Interfering with honesty.
3. (obsolete) Dishonourable; shameful; indecent; unchaste; lewd.
   • Alexander Pope

     inglorious triumphs and dishonest scars

   • Sir T. North

     Speak no foul or dishonest words before them [the women].

4. (obsolete) Dishonoured; disgraced; disfigured.
   • Dryden

     Dishonest with lopped arms the youth appears, / Spoiled of his nose and shortened of his ears.

Antonyms

• honest

Related terms

• dishonesty

Translations

not honest

• Arabic: مُخَادِع‏‎ m (muḵādiʿ), غَشَاش‏‎ m (ḡašāš)

  Egyptian Arabic: مخادع‏‎ m (muxadeʕ), غشاش‏‎ m (ğašaaš)

• Bulgarian: нечестен (bg) (nečésten), непочтен (bg) (nepočten)
• Catalan: deshonest
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 不誠實, 不诚实 (bù chéngshí)

• French: malhonnête (fr)
• German: unehrlich (de)
• Irish: ainionraic, mí-ionraic
• Italian: disonesto (it)
• Japanese: 不正直 (ふしょうじき, fushōjiki)
• Maori: raureka
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: uærlig

  Nynorsk: uærleg

• Polish: nieuczciwy (pl) m
• Portuguese: desonesto (pt) m
• Romanian: necinstit (ro)
• Russian: нече́стный (ru) (nečéstnyj), бесче́стный (ru) (besčéstnyj)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: неискрен

  Roman: neiskren (sh)

• Slovene: neiskrén m
• Spanish: embustero (es), mentiroso (es), deshonesto (es)
• Swedish: oärlig (sv)

Further reading

• dishonest at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• hedonists, stonished