dishonesty

dishonest | American Dictionary

dishonest
adjective
us/dɪsˈɑn·əst/
not honest:
He’s been dishonest with us, and I’ll never trust him again.

dishonesty

noun[ U ]us/dɪsˈɑn·ə·sti/

Examples of dishonest

dishonest
A set of players, a constant fraction of which are dishonest, are trying to elect a common leader.
More than 70 % of the respondents felt that most people were basically dishonest.
They know that some of the informants may be forgetful, mistaken, dishonest, or motivated by a desire for publicity or even revenge.
This more rigorous enforcement of social laws also helps address the problem of unreliable, dishonest or malicious agents operating in the open environment.
For instance, to be untruthful to any degree in any context is dishonest.
Note, however, that a debt-for-nature swap that is marginally favourable to an honest government is always unfavourable to a dishonest one.
They observed that 21 years later, advertising continues to use dishonest language as well as other sophisticated means to sell products and services.
Some "white lies" are not dishonest at all, and some would be borderline cases.
Secondly, when the pooling equilibrium in model 3 applies, also dishonest countries' behaviour is affected in the same way, by assumption.
Other things being equal, it makes sense to say that honest actions are morally 'superior' or 'better' than dishonest ones.
From the outset, then, the army is presented in a negative light, and its representative, the recruiting sergeant, as dishonest.
However, some jokes are dishonest, since they do not respect the very spirit of what they are alluding to, typically the allegory of the prisoners.
Claims of objectivity could be seen as a shallow and dishonest cloak for a political agenda.
It also sought to present an alternative to ' traditional politicians ' seen as corrupt, clientelistic, and dishonest.
The allegations received by the provveditori in 1619 provided uncommonly detailed descriptions of the ' dishonest acts ' which had occurred between priest and nuns.
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