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dishonesty

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of dishonesty

1 the tendency to tell lies

  • if you gain a reputation for dishonesty, no one will believe you even when youʼre telling the truth
Synonyms of dishonesty

deceit, deceitfulness, falsehood, mendaciousness, mendacity, untruthfulness
Words Related to dishonesty

artifice, craft, craftiness, crookedness, cunning, dissembling, dissimulation, double-dealing, duplicity, fakery, foxiness, guile, guilefulness, insincerity, trickishness, wiliness

falseness

hypocrisy
Near Antonyms of dishonesty

honor, incorruptibility

candidness, candor, frankness, good faith, plainspokenness, sincerity, straightforwardness

dependability, reliability, reliableness, trustworthiness

accuracy, objectivity

authenticity, correctness, genuineness

credibility
Antonyms of dishonesty

honesty, integrity, probity, truthfulness, veraciousness, veracity, verity

2 the inclination or practice of misleading others through lies or trickery

  • a religious cult that recruits members through dishonesty and subterfuge
Synonyms of dishonesty

artifice, cheating, cozenage, craft, craftiness, crookedness, crookery, cunning, cunningness, deceit, deceitfulness, deception, deceptiveness, dissembling, dissimulation, double-dealing, dupery, duplicity, fakery, foxiness, fraud, guile, guilefulness, wiliness
Words Related to dishonesty

equivocation, lying, mendacity, prevarication

chicane, chicanery, fraudulence, hanky-panky, jugglery, legerdemain, mountebankery, obliquity, skulduggery (or skullduggery), subterfuge, swindling, trickery, wile

falsehood, falsity, fib, untruth

hypocrisy, insincerity, sanctimoniousness, two-facedness

artfulness, caginess (also cageyness), deviousness, shrewdness

treacherousness, underhandedness, unscrupulousness

covertness, furtiveness, secrecy, shadiness, sneakiness, stealthiness

oiliness, shiftiness, slickness, slipperiness, slyness, smoothness
Near Antonyms of dishonesty

candidness, candor, directness, frankness, openness, plainness, plainspokenness

honesty, probity

dependability, reliability, reliableness, solidity, trustability, trustiness, trustworthiness

decency, goodness, incorruptibility, integrity, righteousness, truthfulness, uprightness, virtuousness
Antonyms of dishonesty

artlessness, forthrightness, good faith, guilelessness, ingenuousness, sincerity

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