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Example sentences for "dishonest"

Lexicographically close words:
dishes; disheveled; dishevelled; dishful; dishing; dishonestly; dishonesty; dishonor; dishonorable; dishonorably
  1. Yet there never was a more dishonest cry.

  2. He has two servants, that will take their oaths They saw her dishonest with his friend Count Philippo; Nay, in the very act.

  3. Hear me, lady: It is enough, my lord hath now a friend In these dishonest days, that dares be honest.

  4. This is a pleasant euphemism, but a real and direct charge of dishonest translation by the authorised translators.

  5. If the argument from man's nature could demonstrate anything, it would prove a murdering God for the murderer, a lascivious God for the licentious man, a dishonest God for the thief, and so through the various phases of human inclination.

  6. In the matter of dishonest written work the same honorable sentiments were expressed.

  7. At that time all Rome was going mad about making money by speculation, and all sorts of dishonest transactions necessarily went on under cover of greater ones honest in themselves.

  8. One may find out that there are honest people as well as dishonest in the world.

  9. The natives of the interior of Sumatra are "dishonest in their dealings with strangers, which they esteem no moral defect.

  10. The Yorubas, according to Burton, are eminently dishonest only "in and around the cities.

  11. He had thin brown hair, neatly brushed and plastered down, so as to make it look still thinner, and his face was the average narrow cunning face of the dishonest man-servant.

  12. Although I do not wish to take ground as his advocate, to the extinction of others, I am not inclined to think him dishonest from the testimony now before me.

  13. There seemed something dishonest in Mr. Blanchet's proceeding despite the frank completeness of his confession.

  14. At that, the emerald scarfpin was but a very ordinary jimcrack and the diamonds of the two rings, though huge and pretentious, had the dishonest and glassy look of paste imitations.

  15. He was a coward at heart as are most Spaniards who turn dishonest that they might eat.

  16. It has compelled dishonest employers to fulfil their contracts with their operatives, and in one single week compelled the payment of the sum of three hundred and twenty-five dollars, which had been withheld by these scoundrels.

  17. Thus the house is furnished with a check on all dishonest salesmen, and at the same time acquires accurate knowledge of their labors in their respective departments.

  18. His rapacity, like the trunk of an elephant, with equal skill twists a fortune out of the Broadway widening, and picks up dishonest pennies in the Bowery.

  19. He has acquired all this by his own unaided efforts, and without ever tarnishing his good name by one single dishonest act.

  20. You see, conductors are sometimes made more dishonest by the drivers, who demand so much a day from them.

  21. As a matter of course, only dishonest men will answer these circulars, or consent to buy money known to be counterfeit.

  22. One should conquer the mean by charity; the untruthful by truth, the man of wicked deeds by forgiveness; and the dishonest by honesty.

  23. He is honest that desires the weal of all creatures, and he is dishonest who is unmerciful.

  24. What would it be, this dishonest procedure?

  25. But I only left it for a few minutes, brother, and I could not think anybody would be so dishonest as to take it whilst I was away.

  26. Some dishonest person had carried it all off.

  27. The fact is that the toleration of men who secure wealth by well known dishonest and sharp practices is a chief cause of the demoralization of the public conscience.

  28. American business was dishonest before society had settled down and knitted itself together.

  29. Alas for the final fate of the dishonest woman who could cheat men in the important matter of ale!

  30. Whether this be a rendering of the dishonest ale-wife, or a separate warning against the vice of Vanity, cannot well be decided.

  31. Serving his country first, he also served himself; and honest upon one grand and systematic principle, he was often dishonest in details.

  32. The day following his birth he offered an early proof of his dishonest propensities, by stealing away the oxen of Admetus which Apollo tended.

  33. Needless to say, it was Kid Wolf's gift, and the money had been taken from the town's dishonest gamblers.

  34. All these men, then, were dishonest and unfriendly toward law and order.

  35. Fate had played him a dishonest turn then, and it was doing the same thing by him now.

  36. You can't make a dishonest thing honest because a majority choose to do it--at least I do not believe that morality is purely a matter of majorities, or that the dishonour of one century can become the honour of the next.

  37. But isn't it right to show up mean and dishonest people, to turn the light of publicity upon cruel and detestable things?


  38. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dishonest" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abusive; ambidextrous; artful; bent; corrupt; crafty; criminal; crooked; cunning; dark; deceitful; deceptive; devious; dirty; dishonest; dishonorable; disingenuous; double; doubtful; dubious; empty; equivocal; evasive; evil; faithless; false; felonious; fictitious; fishy; fixed; forsworn; foul; foxy; fraudulent; hollow; hypocritical; immoral; indirect; insidious; insincere; jaundiced; jesuitical; lawless; lying; mendacious; perfidious; perjured; phoney; questionable; rotten; shady; shameless; sharp; shifty; sinister; slippery; sly; sneaky; sophistical; suspicious; treacherous; tricky; uncandid; unconscientious; unconscionable; underhand; underhanded; unethical; unfounded; unprincipled; unsavory; unscrupulous; untrue; untruthful; villainous