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dishonest - deceptive or fraudulent; disposed to cheat or defraud or deceive |
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honorable,
honest worthy of being honored; entitled to honor and respect; "an honorable man"; "led an honorable life"; "honorable service to his country"
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corrupt,
crooked lacking in integrity; "humanity they knew to be corrupt...from the day of Adam's creation"; "a corrupt and incompetent city government"
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dishonourable,
dishonorable lacking honor or integrity; deserving dishonor; "dishonorable in thought and deed"
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false (used especially of persons) not dependable in devotion or affection; unfaithful; "a false friend"; "when lovers prove untrue"
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insincere lacking sincerity; "a charming but thoroughly insincere woman"; "their praise was extravagant and insincere"
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untrustworthy,
untrusty not worthy of trust or belief; "an untrustworthy person"
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double-dealing,
double-tongued,
duplicitous,
ambidextrous,
deceitful,
double-faced,
two-faced,
janus-faced marked by deliberate deceptiveness especially by pretending one set of feelings and acting under the influence of another; "she was a deceitful scheming little thing"- Israel Zangwill; "a double-dealing double agent"; "a double-faced infernal traitor and schemer"- W.M.Thackeray
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beguiling misleading by means of pleasant or alluring methods; "taken in by beguiling tales of overnight fortunes"
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fraudulent,
deceitful,
fallacious intended to deceive; "deceitful advertising"; "fallacious testimony"; "smooth, shining, and deceitful as thin ice" - S.T.Coleridge; "a fraudulent scheme to escape paying taxes"
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misleading,
deceptive,
shoddy designed to deceive or mislead either deliberately or inadvertently; "the deceptive calm in the eye of the storm"; "deliberately deceptive packaging"; "a misleading similarity"; "statistics can be presented in ways that are misleading"; "shoddy business practices"
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false (used especially of persons) not dependable in devotion or affection; unfaithful; "a false friend"; "when lovers prove untrue"
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picaresque involving clever rogues or adventurers especially as in a type of fiction; "picaresque novels"; "waifs of the picaresque tradition"; "a picaresque hero"
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blackguardly,
scoundrelly,
rascally,
roguish lacking principles or scruples; "the rascally rabble"; "the tyranny of a scoundrelly aristocracy" - W.M. Thackaray; "the captain was set adrift by his roguish crew"
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thieving
thievish
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