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单词 dishonest
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dishonestdishonest /dɪsˈɑnɪst/ adjective dishonest
a dishonest person tells lies, cheats, or steals things:
  • I don’t trust him. I think he is dishonest.
  • She had gotten the money in a dishonest way, by using someone else’s credit card.
  • untruthful (formal)
    not telling the truth about something:
  • The judge said that Carman had been deliberately untruthful to the court.
  • deceitful (formal)
    telling lies and trying to make people believe things that are not true:
  • He tricked me. He is a deceitful horrible person.
  • corrupt
    doing dishonest or illegal things in order to get money or power. You use corrupt about government officials and police officers:
  • Corrupt police officers took money from criminals in return for not arresting them.
  • crooked (informal)
    dishonest and doing illegal things, especially in order to get money:
  • A crooked judge let him go free.
  • devious
    dishonest in a clever way, and good at thinking of ways of secretly tricking people in order to get what you want:
  • Some companies use devious methods to get you to buy their goods.
  • underhanded
    dishonest because you secretly deceive people in order to get what you want:
  • An underhanded co-worker took the sales that should have been hers.
  • shady (informal)
    probably dishonest and illegal. You use shady especially about business deals:
  • Mills made his money from shady business deals with the Mafia.
  • ANTONYMS ➔ see honest ➔ see cheat for words meaning “to do something dishonest” ➔ see Describing People’s CharacterADVERBS: dishonestYou can make the adjectives dishonest, untruthful, deceitful, and devious into adverbs by using an -ly ending: He had gotten the money dishonestly. | “Yes, I’ve done the work,” he said untruthfully. | If you never intended to pay the bill for the goods you received, then you acted deceitfully.
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