Definition of Dishonesty

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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

Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect.
Stephen Leacock

The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty.
John Steinbeck

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

Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.
Horace Mann

Regardless of the moral issue, dishonesty in advertising has proved very unprofitable.
Leo Burnett

I do not believe we can blame genetics for adultery, homosexuality, dishonesty and other character flaws.
Jerry Falwell

Dishonesty in government is the business of every citizen. It is not enough to do your own job. There's no particular virtue in that. Democracy isn't a gift. It's a responsibility.
Dalton Trumbo

Dishonesty Translations

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

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