dishonest
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EtymologyEdit
From Middle English dishoneste (“dishonourable”), from Old French deshoneste, from Latin dehonestus. Equivalent to dis- + honest. Displaced native Old English unsōþfæst.
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AdjectiveEdit
dishonest (comparative more dishonest, superlative most dishonest)
- Not honest.
- Interfering with honesty.
- (obsolete) Dishonourable; shameful; indecent; unchaste; lewd.
- 1713, Alexander Pope, “Windsor-Forest. […]”, in The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope, volume I, London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintot, […], published 1717, OCLC 43265629:
- inglorious triumphs and dishonest scars
- c. 1560,Thomas North, Archontorologion
- speake 'dishonest word
- (obsolete) Dishonoured; disgraced; disfigured.
- 1697, Virgil, “The Sixth Book of the Æneis”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], OCLC 403869432:
- Dishonest with lopped arms the youth appears, / Spoiled of his nose and shortened of his ears.
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not honest
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Further readingEdit
- dishonest at OneLook Dictionary Search.
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Middle EnglishEdit
AdjectiveEdit
dishonest
- Alternative form of dishoneste (“disgraceful”)