dishonest

Meaning

Adjective

  • Not honest.
  • Interfering with honesty.
  • Dishonourable; shameful; indecent; unchaste; lewd.
  • Dishonoured; disgraced; disfigured.

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Origin

  • From Middle English dishoneste, from Old French deshoneste, from Latin dehonestus. Synchronically, dis- + honest.

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