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Definition of Dishonesty
Dishonesty

Dishonor; dishonorableness; shame.

Want of honesty, probity, or integrity in principle; want of fairness and straightforwardness; a disposition to defraud, deceive, or betray; faithlessness.

Violation of trust or of justice; fraud; any deviation from probity; a dishonest act.

Lewdness; unchastity.

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Dishonesty Quotations

There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.
Benjamin Franklin

Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.
Plato

I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.
Charles Dickens

The greatest truth is honesty, and the greatest falsehood is dishonesty.
Abu Bakr

There are some things that we know are just not as pleasant as the lies that we tell ourselves, and in that sense in order to endure existence everyone endures a certain amount of dishonesty in their everyday lives.
Todd Rundgren

Dishonesty Translations

dishonesty in German is Unredlichkeit, Unehrlichkeit
dishonesty in Spanish is deshonestidad


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