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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 Jason Pham, StyleCaster, 19 Aug. 2025 The Wakefield study was retracted in 2010, and Wakefield was found guilty of dishonesty and flouting ethics protocols by the U.K. General Medical Council, as well as stripped of his medical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
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Noun
  • Over the course of eight episodes, the show traces how mounting pressures, deceit and betrayal led to Alex murdering Maggie and Paul in 2021.
    Samantha Stutsman, PEOPLE, 18 Oct. 2025
  • The phone call ignited a shocking chain of events that ultimately uncovered Murdaugh’s long history of lies and deceit, culminating in him murdering his wife and son.
    Julia Bonavita, FOXNews.com, 18 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • As various ancient sources recount, after Achilles is killed by Paris, the Greeks resort to deception.
    Elizabeth D. Samet, Foreign Affairs, 29 Oct. 2025
  • Real war introduces deception, saturation attacks and human failures.
    Lauren Huff, Entertainment Weekly, 29 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
  • This 2023 docuseries centers on the Murdaughs, South Carolina's illustrious legal dynasty, whose members were tied to multiple homicides, financial fraud and other alleged crimes.
    James Mercadante, PEOPLE, 25 Oct. 2025
  • According to the State Department, altered passports are among the most common types of passport fraud.
    Lauren Dana Ellman, Travel + Leisure, 25 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • These defendants, which include former professional athletes, used high-tech cheating technology to steal millions of dollars from victims in underground poker games that were secretly fixed.
    Anna Lazarus Caplan, PEOPLE, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Naroditsky, whose cause of death has not been made public, had vigorously denied cheating, and other chess champions agreed the claims were baseless.
    Julia Prodis Sulek, Mercury News, 23 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The story follows Toto, an almost completely blind cat with incredible ninja skills, who must use her courage and cunning to stop a deadly King Cobra that has escaped onto the streets of London, alongside her cheeky brother Silver.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 21 Oct. 2025
  • 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

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“Dishonesty.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dishonesty. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.

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