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Recent Examples of dishonesty Smee’s traumatized both by Arthur’s sudden death and Slightly’s dishonesty. Noel Murray, Vulture, 17 Sep. 2025 Johnson’s dishonesty doesn’t even take into consideration the carnage from the homicides of yesteryear in the Windy City. Christopher Tremoglie, The Washington Examiner, 5 Sep. 2025 The format change created a lot of drama among the cast, including Brian, who exposed the dishonesty between one of his rival couples to the detriment of his own relationship with Parisa. Jason Pham, StyleCaster, 19 Aug. 2025 The Wakefield study was retracted in 2010, and Wakefield was found guilty of dishonesty and flouting ethics protocols by the U.K. General Medical Council, as well as stripped of his medical license. Terri Levien, The Conversation, 25 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for dishonesty
Recent Examples of Synonyms for dishonesty
Noun
  • And with that comes deceit and manipulation.
    Lori A Bashian, FOXNews.com, 12 Oct. 2025
  • The 2022 push for Measure B, which enabled this year’s approval of new city trash policies, was built on deceit about how much the fees would be.
    U T Editorial Board, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Neither Eliot nor Jules suspected anything, and the ease of the deception added to its pleasing sordidness.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 21 Oct. 2025
  • On October 14, those flights revealed missile sites under construction, confirming that Soviet promises had been deliberate deception.
    Big Think, Big Think, 20 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Of course, the retort is that this would be irritating and exasperating to be continually deluged with alerts about AI deceptiveness.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 24 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • As investigators dig deeper, more disturbing secrets emerge, including financial fraud, addiction, mysterious deaths and corruption.
    Samantha Stutsman, PEOPLE, 18 Oct. 2025
  • Western Alliance also is alleging fraud in its bad loans.
    Kevin Stankiewicz,Matthew J. Belvedere, CNBC, 17 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Both had a bad drinking habit by then, and when Martha confronted Willie about his cheating, a fight broke out.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 11 Oct. 2025
  • In addition to delivering high-quality search results, this method hinders search-engine cheating; artificially boosting your web page by putting up a thousand pages linking to it won’t accomplish much if those pages have low status.
    Jack Murtagh, Scientific American, 11 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Federico Marchetti, the Italian fashion entrepreneur, is a master of sprezzatura—the courtier’s art of cloaking ambition and cunning in an air of guileless nonchalance.
    John Seabrook, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2025
  • But Israeli cunning, buoyed by remarkable intelligence capabilities and precision targeting, has damaged the group.
    Sean Durns, The Washington Examiner, 26 Sep. 2025

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“Dishonesty.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dishonesty. Accessed 23 Oct. 2025.

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