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dishonest English

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dishonest

If someone or something is dishonest, they lie or keep secrets. If someone or something is dishonest, they are not honest. That man is dishonest because he lied about his age.

dishonest

deceptive or fraudulent; disposed to cheat or defraud or deceive (= corruptible, purchasable, venal) capable of being corrupted corruptible judges dishonest politicians a purchasable senator a venal police officer

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Simple sentences

I am done with Tom and Mary. They are dishonest people.
What a dishonest fellow!
I feel nothing but contempt for such dishonest behavior.
The man strikes me as being dishonest.
I would rather be poor than make money by dishonest means.
Tom is dishonest.
I wasn't dishonest.
They are unbelievably dishonest.
The great enemy of truth is very often not the lie-deliberate, contrived and dishonest-but the myth-persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
I know that Tom is dishonest.
That's dishonest.
If a person is dishonest, he is dishonest to the end.
Tom said Mary was dishonest.
It's dishonest.
What you did was dishonest.
What Tom did was dishonest.
It's strange that men should take up crime when there are so many legal ways to be dishonest.
There are many dishonest people in the world.
I think that's kind of dishonest.
That's very dishonest.

Movie subtitles

A bribe's a dishonest gift.
A person who accepts it knows that he must do something dishonest in return.
So what's dishonest with giving presents before someone's nice to you?
Oh, no, Harvey, you're not. because you know you've been dishonest.
Well, so were you dishonest. - Now, Harvey.
Would it be dishonest if we went through his haversack?
That would be dishonest.
Did anyone ever tell you you have a dishonest face?
So many honest girls become dishonest women.
To soak it full, you'll do anything that's ruthless, selfish, dishonest.
That dog is. is dishonest.
He's contemptible, dishonest, selfish, deceitful, vicious.
That's what you get for being dishonest.
Willie doesn't want to be treasurer either if he has to associate with those dishonest people.
We're obviously being dishonest.
If I were dishonest, I could've swiped it all.
Well, so were you dishonest.
You thought you were buying stolen goods. That's what you get for being dishonest.
Then there's my father, very bankrupt and slightly dishonest.
Everyone is selfish and dishonest.
It's dishonest.
First, all dishonest undertakings are doomed to sure failure.
Now gentlemen, let us presume. That by some freak of nature. A dishonest man becomes wealthy.
This dishonest man. Wherever he goes. Whatever he does.
This dishonest man. Would be troubled by the disapproval of his own conscience.
I consider them to be idiots. and almost dishonest people.
I asked him to name a profession where one couldn't be dishonest.
It's absolutely dishonest!
Run away you dishonest.
I'm a dishonest woman.
You are clearly incapable of earning a dishonest living.
She's dishonest.
You were frankly dishonest?

News and current affairs

Indeed, most professional investors trashed the tests as dishonest even as their holdings benefited from a rising market.
On the contrary, they are now the government's partners in a joint venture to manage this dishonest scheme.
Another of Berlusconi's economic wheezes is decriminalization of accounting fraud, something his government launched just when the world, in particular America, was establishing harsher punishments for dishonest managers and other fiduciaries.
Ordinary Chinese generally support the anti-corruption drive; it is they who usually initiate protests and point fingers at dishonest officials.
But they need not search too far for culprits; indeed, they need only look in the mirror and confront the consequences of the dishonest game that the leaders of EU member states have played for too long.
When Europe's leaders do help, it makes the public and markets think that they are being dishonest.
He remains a nationalist, but the main theme of his electoral campaign was the struggle against organized crime and his promise to purge the police of dishonest high-ranking officers.
When voters write off politicians as dishonest, anti-democratic movements thrive.
One type is someone who is a dishonest man or woman to begin with.
Such a person will be a dishonest leader, ideologue, or diplomat in any circumstance.
Beyond these distinct types of dishonest politicians are more general political postures.
At the other extreme is a naive, utopian, and moralistic stance that is equally dishonest.
It is a label that easily applies to all the types of dishonest politicians described above.
However, only the dishonest politician equates politics exclusively with popularity.
This argument is both disingenuous and dishonest.
Clear, too, was the fact that, in promoting its tax cuts, the Bush Administration was engaging (on a multi-billion dollar scale) in dishonest, Enron-like accounting.
It is now possible to speak of moving from a dishonest peace process tainted by violent ambushes and stalling tactics toward real peace.

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