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.
   • 1713, Alexander Pope, Windsor Forest:

     inglorious triumphs and dishonest scars

   • (Can we date this quote by Sir T. North and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

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

4. (obsolete) Dishonoured; disgraced; disfigured.
   • 1697, “The Sixth Book of the Æneis”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: Printed for Jacob Tonson, […], OCLC 403869432:

     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 (muḵādiʿ), غَشَاش‎ (ḡašāš)

  Egyptian Arabic: مخادع‎ (muḵādeʿ), غشاش‎ (ḡašāš)

• Belarusian: несумле́нны (njesumljénny), нячэ́сны (njačésny)
• Bulgarian: нече́стен (bg) (nečésten), непочтен (bg) (nepočten)
• Catalan: deshonest (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 不誠實, 不诚实 (bù chéngshí)

• Czech: nečestný, nepoctivý
• Danish: uærlig
• Finnish: epärehellinen (fi)
• French: malhonnête (fr)
• German: unehrlich (de)
• Hindi: बेईमान (hi) (beīmān)
• Hunsrik: uneherlich
• Irish: ainionraic, mí-ionraic
• Italian: disonesto (it)
• Japanese: 不正直 (ふしょうじき, fushōjiki)
• Korean: 부정직하다 (ko) (bujeongjikhada)

• Latin: fraudulentus
• Maori: raureka, tāhae
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: uærlig

  Nynorsk: uærleg

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

  Cyrillic: неискрен

  Roman: neiskren (sh)

• Slovene: neiskrén m
• Spanish: embustero (es), mentiroso (es), deshonesto (es)
• Swedish: oärlig (sv)
• Ukrainian: нече́сний (nečésnyj), несумлі́нний (nesumlínnyj)
• Welsh: anonest (cy)

Further reading

• dishonest at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• hedonists, stonished