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How to pronounce dishonesty in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms knavery
Type of actus reus, misconduct, wrongdoing, wrongful conduct
Has types quackery, treachery, treason, trick, falsehood, perfidy, falsification, betrayal, charlatanism
Type Words
Type of unrighteousness
Has types rascality, shiftiness, slipperiness, thievishness, trickiness, unscrupulousness, corruptness, corruption, crookedness, deceit, deceptiveness, deviousness, disingenuousness, fraudulence, larcenous, untruthfulness, obliquity

Examples of dishonesty

dishonesty
I'm intolerant of dishonesty and hypocrisy and expose them at every opportunity.
From the forbes.com
Especially when it is touted against blatant dishonesty by a political opponent.
From the nbr.co.nz
In my opinion, PETA's dishonesty comes in the form of shading an interpretation.
From the forbes.com
Anyone defending Hutton is being partisan to the point of bare-faced dishonesty.
From the guardian.co.uk
Thank God someone is finally being honest about the banks intentional dishonesty.
From the forbes.com
Miner contends there is insufficient evidence to support a finding of dishonesty.
From the sacbee.com
Progressive reformers are right to fulminate about the dishonesty of the right.
From the newsweek.com
This, in a sense, is more disturbing than the cases of dishonesty or demagoguery.
From the time.com
Stop affirming or denying only after redefining terms, that's blatant dishonesty.
From the blog.beliefnet.com
More examples
  • The quality of being dishonest
  • Lack of honesty; acts of lying or cheating or stealing
  • (dishonest) deceptive or fraudulent; disposed to cheat or defraud or deceive
  • (dishonest) corruptible: capable of being corrupted; "corruptible judges"; "dishonest politicians"; "a purchasable senator"; "a venal police officer"
  • 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. ...
  • The characteristic or condition of being dishonest; An act which is fraudulent or otherwise dishonest
  • (dishonest) not honest; interfering with honesty
  • Including but not limited to the following:
  • 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 disclose material ...