Dishonest
adjective
Someone who lies or cheats.
He was dishonest with his friends, he never told them the truth.
Often appears as...
- dishonest person
- dishonest practice
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Disapproving
adjective
Not telling the truth in a legal matter to get an unfair or illegal advantage.
His dishonest manipulation of the company's financial records resulted in his arrest.
Often appears as...
- dishonest conduct
- dishonest proceedings
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Disapproving
Technical
adjective
Intentionally false in order to make people believe something that is not true.
The politician made dishonest claims during his campaign.
Often appears as...
- dishonest statement
- dishonest advertising
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Disapproving
adjective
Someone who lies or cheats.
He was dishonest with his friends, he never told them the truth.
Often appears as...
- dishonest person
- dishonest practice
Usage tips
Disapproving
adjective
Not telling the truth in a legal matter to get an unfair or illegal advantage.
His dishonest manipulation of the company's financial records resulted in his arrest.
Often appears as...
- dishonest conduct
- dishonest proceedings
Usage tips
Disapproving
Technical
adjective
Intentionally false in order to make people believe something that is not true.
The politician made dishonest claims during his campaign.
Often appears as...
- dishonest statement
- dishonest advertising
Usage tips
Disapproving
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Personal Dishonesty
Used to describe people who deceive others in personal situations, often breaking trust.
She was dishonest about spending the savings.
Pro Tip 2/3Emotional Impact
Being dishonest can damage relationships and trust, having a long-lasting emotional effect.
His dishonest actions hurt his family deeply.
Pro Tip 3/3Subtle Lies
Dishonesty can involve partial truths or leaving out information, not just outright lies.
Being dishonest by omission, she didn't mention the accident.
Pro Tip 1/3Personal Dishonesty
Used to describe people who deceive others in personal situations, often breaking trust.
She was dishonest about spending the savings.
Pro Tip 2/3Emotional Impact
Being dishonest can damage relationships and trust, having a long-lasting emotional effect.
His dishonest actions hurt his family deeply.
Pro Tip 3/3Subtle Lies
Dishonesty can involve partial truths or leaving out information, not just outright lies.
Being dishonest by omission, she didn't mention the accident.
Pro Tip 1/3Personal Dishonesty
Used to describe people who deceive others in personal situations, often breaking trust.
She was dishonest about spending the savings.
Pro Tip 2/3Emotional Impact
Being dishonest can damage relationships and trust, having a long-lasting emotional effect.
His dishonest actions hurt his family deeply.
Pro Tip 3/3Subtle Lies
Dishonesty can involve partial truths or leaving out information, not just outright lies.
Being dishonest by omission, she didn't mention the accident.
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An Elaborate 9/11 Plan ...
history of being involved in all kinds of shenanigans and dishonest things but this is so far beyond the pale this would be a conspiracy that would have to involve thousands if not tens of thousands of people and it involved the slaughter of five or six thousand people and there are just so many moving parts
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Steven Pinker: What our...
if you issue a veiled bribe, then the dishonest officer could interpret it as a bribe, in which case you get the payoff of going free. The honest officer can't hold you to it as being a bribe, and therefore, you get the nuisance of the traffic ticket. So you get the best of both worlds.
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Ethical dilemma: Who...
think that following the evidence is also morally required. One argument for this view is that having well-informed, accurate beliefs is often vitally important to determining the ethical way to act. Another argument is that there’s something unethical about being dishonest,
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What's a snollygoster? A...
dishonest politician although there was a nineteenth-century newspaper editor who does to find it rather better when he said it's nollie gosta is a fellow who seeks office regardless of party platform or principal and who when he wins gets there by the sheer force of
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How do you know whom to...
or appealing to authority, helps us gain knowledge, but, it doesn't always. Even the most highly respected authorities can turn out to be wrong. Occasionally this happens because a highly respected authority is dishonest and claims to know something
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Jamil Zaki: How to...
Isn't optimism obsolete, backwards and naive, given all we've been through? Shouldn't it be replaced with a more up-to-date cognitive technology? Well, lots of people have replaced it with the notion that humanity is greedy, selfish and dishonest.
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How to spot a misleading...
is far more significant. When they're used well, graphs can help us intuitively grasp complex data. But as visual software has enabled more usage of graphs throughout all media, it's also made them easier to use in a careless or dishonest way.
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We've stopped trusting...
It would be easy to conclude that institutional trust isn't working because we are fed up with the sheer audacity of dishonest elites, but what's happening now runs deeper than the rampant questioning of the size and structure of institutions.
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Can you solve the...
The rooms are secure, and no one observes the rolls. That means a contestant could add incorrectly, or worse, be dishonest and make up a score they didn’t achieve. This is where you come in.
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How storytelling helps...
children are the overlooked victims of their parents' crimes. Until last November, I was a serving prisoner, imprisoned for fraud. I was dishonest, and I paid the penalty.
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An Elaborate 9/11 Plan ...
history of being involved in all kinds of shenanigans and dishonest things but this is so far beyond the pale this would be a conspiracy that would have to involve thousands if not tens of thousands of people and it involved the slaughter of five or six thousand people and there are just so many moving parts
Video examples
Steven Pinker: What our...
if you issue a veiled bribe, then the dishonest officer could interpret it as a bribe, in which case you get the payoff of going free. The honest officer can't hold you to it as being a bribe, and therefore, you get the nuisance of the traffic ticket. So you get the best of both worlds.
Video examples
Ethical dilemma: Who...
think that following the evidence is also morally required. One argument for this view is that having well-informed, accurate beliefs is often vitally important to determining the ethical way to act. Another argument is that there’s something unethical about being dishonest,
Video examples
What's a snollygoster? A...
dishonest politician although there was a nineteenth-century newspaper editor who does to find it rather better when he said it's nollie gosta is a fellow who seeks office regardless of party platform or principal and who when he wins gets there by the sheer force of
Video examples
How do you know whom to...
or appealing to authority, helps us gain knowledge, but, it doesn't always. Even the most highly respected authorities can turn out to be wrong. Occasionally this happens because a highly respected authority is dishonest and claims to know something
Video examples
Jamil Zaki: How to...
Isn't optimism obsolete, backwards and naive, given all we've been through? Shouldn't it be replaced with a more up-to-date cognitive technology? Well, lots of people have replaced it with the notion that humanity is greedy, selfish and dishonest.
Video examples
How to spot a misleading...
is far more significant. When they're used well, graphs can help us intuitively grasp complex data. But as visual software has enabled more usage of graphs throughout all media, it's also made them easier to use in a careless or dishonest way.
Video examples
We've stopped trusting...
It would be easy to conclude that institutional trust isn't working because we are fed up with the sheer audacity of dishonest elites, but what's happening now runs deeper than the rampant questioning of the size and structure of institutions.
Video examples
Can you solve the...
The rooms are secure, and no one observes the rolls. That means a contestant could add incorrectly, or worse, be dishonest and make up a score they didn’t achieve. This is where you come in.
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How storytelling helps...
children are the overlooked victims of their parents' crimes. Until last November, I was a serving prisoner, imprisoned for fraud. I was dishonest, and I paid the penalty.
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Jeannette Walls
American Writer
What's wrong with social climbing? What's wrong with trying to improve your lot in life? And if you do, what happens if your family doesn't? Is that betraying your roots? Are you being dishonest? I had a really good job, and it paid really well. Am I supposed to quit it out of loyalty to my parents?
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Jim Parrack
American Actor
I know why people lie to themselves in life, but I'll never understand the appeal of the dishonest theater where the actor doesn't make some earnest attempt to include their own honest humanity in their collaboration with an author. It's so ugly to me that it hurts sometimes to see it happen.
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Cherie Lunghi
English Actress
I try to live my life as honestly as I can, and the last thing I want is to pretend to be something I'm not. To pretend to myself I am a sex symbol would somehow be dishonest. I'd feel, in my heart, that I were behaving artificially and that's the last thing I want to do.
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Si Robertson
American Celebrity
A lot of people don't believe there's evil. If there's good in this world, then you're being intellectually dishonest, if you believe there's a good power, you've also got to believe there's an evil power, too. There are physical laws that are in place.
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Paul G. Tremblay
American Author
There's no objective reason anyone can point to that proves a horror story is innately inferior or that it's doomed to fail as a work of art because of it being horror. Anyone saying otherwise is being intellectually dishonest.
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Vincent Gallo
American Actor
My parents were dishonest people. If it was my birthday, I knew my mother took me to the K-Mart and she stole my toy. She'd put it in the shopping cart and we'd walk out. I was raised with that.
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John F. Kennedy
American President
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
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Lady Gaga
American Singer
I think what's important is for us to decipher what is honest and what is dishonest and be accepting of those things and not operating from fear.
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Thomas Carlyle
Scottish Philosopher
The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity.
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Patrick Kavanagh
Irish Poet
It might be said that the pose of absolute honesty is the most dishonest one of all.
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Jeannette Walls
American Writer
What's wrong with social climbing? What's wrong with trying to improve your lot in life? And if you do, what happens if your family doesn't? Is that betraying your roots? Are you being dishonest? I had a really good job, and it paid really well. Am I supposed to quit it out of loyalty to my parents?
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Jim Parrack
American Actor
I know why people lie to themselves in life, but I'll never understand the appeal of the dishonest theater where the actor doesn't make some earnest attempt to include their own honest humanity in their collaboration with an author. It's so ugly to me that it hurts sometimes to see it happen.
Quote examples
Cherie Lunghi
English Actress
I try to live my life as honestly as I can, and the last thing I want is to pretend to be something I'm not. To pretend to myself I am a sex symbol would somehow be dishonest. I'd feel, in my heart, that I were behaving artificially and that's the last thing I want to do.
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Si Robertson
American Celebrity
A lot of people don't believe there's evil. If there's good in this world, then you're being intellectually dishonest, if you believe there's a good power, you've also got to believe there's an evil power, too. There are physical laws that are in place.
Quote examples
Paul G. Tremblay
American Author
There's no objective reason anyone can point to that proves a horror story is innately inferior or that it's doomed to fail as a work of art because of it being horror. Anyone saying otherwise is being intellectually dishonest.
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Vincent Gallo
American Actor
My parents were dishonest people. If it was my birthday, I knew my mother took me to the K-Mart and she stole my toy. She'd put it in the shopping cart and we'd walk out. I was raised with that.
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John F. Kennedy
American President
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
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Lady Gaga
American Singer
I think what's important is for us to decipher what is honest and what is dishonest and be accepting of those things and not operating from fear.
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Thomas Carlyle
Scottish Philosopher
The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity.
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Patrick Kavanagh
Irish Poet
It might be said that the pose of absolute honesty is the most dishonest one of all.
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