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dishonest 中文解釋 wordnet sense Collocation Usage Collins Definition
Adjective
/disˈänist/,
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Behaving or prone to behave in an untrustworthy or fraudulent way,
  1. Behaving or prone to behave in an untrustworthy or fraudulent way
    • - he was a dishonest hypocrite prepared to exploit his family
  2. Intended to mislead or cheat
    • - he gave the editor a dishonest account of events
  1. deceptive or fraudulent; disposed to cheat or defraud or deceive
  2. corruptible: capable of being corrupted; "corruptible judges"; "dishonest politicians"; "a purchasable senator"; "a venal police officer"
  3. (dishonestly) in a corrupt and deceitful manner; "he acted dishonestly when he gave the contract to his best friend"
  4. (dishonesty) the quality of being dishonest
  5. (dishonesty) lack of honesty; acts of lying or cheating or stealing
  6. Dishonesty is a word which, in common usage, may be defined as the act or to act without honesty. It is used to describe a lack of probity, cheating , lying or being deliberately deceptive or a lack in integrity, knavishness, perfidiosity, corruption or treacherousness. ...
  7. not honest; interfering with honesty
  8. ("Dishonesty") means a crime which includes, but is not limited to, any offense involving perjury, bribery, forgery, counterfeiting, false or misleading oral or written statements, deception, fraud, schemes or artifices to deceive or defraud, material misrepresentations and the failure to ...
  9. (Dishonesty) including but not limited to the following:
  10. (Dishonesty) n. A condition which is considered a vice until it is channeled into the virtuous and proper bounds of tact.