dishonesty

dishonesty
    n 1: the quality of being dishonest [ant: {honestness},
         {honesty}]
    2: lack of honesty; acts of lying or cheating or stealing [syn:
       {dishonesty}, {knavery}]
    

Dishonesty \Dis*hon"es*ty\, n. [Cf. OF. deshonest['e], F.
   d['e]shonn[^e]tet['e].]
   1. Dishonor; dishonorableness; shame. [Obs.] "The hidden
      things of dishonesty." --2 Cor. iv. 2.
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   2. Want of honesty, probity, or integrity in principle; want
      of fairness and straightforwardness; a disposition to
      defraud, deceive, or betray; faithlessness.
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   3. Violation of trust or of justice; fraud; any deviation
      from probity; a dishonest act.
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   4. Lewdness; unchastity. --Shak.
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80 Moby Thesaurus words for "dishonesty":
      Machiavellianism, ambidexterity, artifice, bad faith,
      ballot-box stuffing, bunco, cardsharping, cheat, cheating, chicane,
      chicanery, corruptedness, corruption, corruptness, cozenage,
      credibility gap, criminality, crookedness, cunning, deceitfulness,
      deviousness, diddle, diddling, dishonor, dodge, double-dealing,
      doubleness, doubleness of heart, duplicity, evasiveness,
      faithlessness, falseheartedness, falsehood, falseness,
      feloniousness, fibbery, fibbing, fishy transaction, flam, flimflam,
      fraud, fraudulence, fraudulency, gerrymandering, graft, grift, gyp,
      gyp joint, hanky-panky, illicit business, imposition, imposture,
      improbity, indirection, low cunning, lying, mendaciousness,
      mendacity, mythomania, pseudology, racket, scam, shadiness,
      sharp practice, shiftiness, slipperiness, swindle, treachery,
      trickery, trickiness, truthlessness, two-facedness,
      unconscientiousness, underhandedness, unsavoriness,
      unscrupulousness, unstraightforwardness, untruthfulness,
      unveraciousness, wile