dishonest

Etymology

From Middle English dishoneste (“dishonourable”), from Old French deshoneste, from Latin dehonestus. Equivalent to dis- + honest. Displaced native Old English unsōþfæst.

adj

  1. Not honest.
  2. Interfering with honesty.
  3. (obsolete) Dishonourable; shameful; indecent; unchaste; lewd.
    speake dishonest word c. 1560, Thomas North, Archontorologion
  4. (obsolete) Dishonoured; disgraced; disfigured.
    Dishonest with lopped arms the youth appears, / Spoiled of his nose and shortened of his ears.

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