DISHONEST, a. Dizonest. dis and honest.
1. Void of honesty destitute of probity, integrity or good faith faithless fraudulent knavish having or exercising a disposition to deceive, cheat and defraud applied to persons as a dishonest man.
2. Proceeding from fraud or marked by it fraudulent knavish as a dishonest transaction.
3. Disgraced dishonored from the sense in Latin.
Dishonest with lopped arms the youth appears.
4. Disgraceful ignominious from the Latin sense.
Inglorious triumphs, and dishonest scars.
5. Unchaste lewd.
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