Crossword-Solution: DISHONEST
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Dishonest | a. | Dishonorable; shameful; indecent; unchaste; lewd. |
| Dishonest | a. | Dishonored; disgraced; disfigured. |
| Dishonest | a. | Wanting in honesty; void of integrity; faithless; disposed to cheat or defraud; not trustworthy; as, a dishonest man. |
| Dishonest | a. | Characterized by fraud; indicating a want of probity; knavish; fraudulent; unjust. |
| Dishonest | v. t. | To disgrace; to dishonor; as, to dishonest a maid. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| DISHONEST | anagram | HEDONISTS |
We have 70 clues for the answer “DISHONEST”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Two-faced? | 7 answers |
| BRIBABLE | 8 answers |
| grafting | 9 answers |
| Knavish | 11 answers |
| Conscienceless | 13 answers |
| Not to be trusted | 17 answers |
| cheating | 19 answers |
| Not on the level | 19 answers |
| treasonable | 22 answers |
| Roguish | 26 answers |
| mendacious | 27 answers |
| Not straight. | 30 answers |
| Unprincipled | 30 answers |
| Tainted | 31 answers |
| Fishy? | 34 answers |
| Venal | 37 answers |
| Illicit | 41 answers |
| Unscrupulous | 42 answers |
| sneaking | 43 answers |
| Conniving | 44 answers |
| Duplicitous | 45 answers |
| fraudulent | 45 answers |
| Unethical | 46 answers |
| Ignominious | 46 answers |
| Oblique | 47 answers |
| Sinful | 48 answers |
| Backbiting | 48 answers |
| Stealthy? | 48 answers |
| untruthful | 50 answers |
| disingenuous | 50 answers |
| Guileful | 51 answers |
| spurious | 51 answers |
| treasonous | 52 answers |
| Unfaithful | 52 answers |
| Ignoble | 52 answers |
| illegal | 53 answers |
| dissolute | 54 answers |
| iniquitous | 54 answers |
| Unfounded | 55 answers |
| Insidious | 55 answers |
| Canny | 56 answers |
| shady | 57 answers |
| Indirect | 57 answers |
| Wily | 58 answers |
| Underhand? | 58 answers |
| Degenerate | 60 answers |
| Slick | 60 answers |
| perfidious | 61 answers |
| Faithless | 61 answers |
| Insincere | 61 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EAETR
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with DISHONEST (5)
Nor those mysterious parts were then conceald, Then was not guiltie shame, dishonest shame Of natures works, honor dishonorable, Sin-bred, how have ye troubl’d all mankind With shews instead, meer shews of seeming pure, And banisht from mans life his happiest life, Simplicitie and spotless innocence.
When each had fully stated his case the Ape announced this sentence: “I do not think you, Wolf, ever lost what you claim; and I do believe you, Fox, to have stolen what you so stoutly deny.” The dishonest, if they act honestly, get no credit.
And this is the reason why in youth good men often appear to be simple, and are easily practised upon by the dishonest, because they have no examples of what evil is in their own souls.
The Governor of the province had sent him an extraordinarily stupid minute, almost assuming that his dealings had been dishonest.
Anything that wants firmnessÿor solidity; that which is more specious than real; a false show; a cheat or fraud; a delusive scheme; an empty project; a dishonest speculation; as, the South Sea bubble.
Quotes with DISHONEST (3)
A dishonest man you can always trust to be dishonest.
— and pompous fools drive me up the wall. Ordinary fools are alright; you can talk to them and try to help them out. But pompous fools — guys who are fools and covering it all over and impressing people as to how wonderful they are with all this hocus pocus — THAT, I CANNOT STAND! An ordinary fool isn’t a faker; an honest fool is all right. But a dishonest fool is terrible!
Someone with a fresh mind, one not conditioned by upbringing and environment, would doubtless look at science and the powerful reductionism that it inspires as overwhelmingly the better mode of understanding the world, and would doubtless scorn religion as sentimental wishful thinking. Would not that same uncluttered mind also see the attempts to reconcile science and religion by disparaging the reduction of the complex to the simple as attempts guided by muddle-headed sentim…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Newsday, NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1996–2018).