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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