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From Middle English dishoneste (“dishonourable”), from Old French deshoneste, from Latin dehonestus. Equivalent to dis- +‎ honest. Displaced native Old English unsōþfæst.

(UK) IPA(key): /dɪˈsɒnɪst/
(US) IPA(key): /dɪˈsɑnɪst/
(obsolete) IPA(key): /dɪzˈɒnɛst/, /dɪzˈɒnɪst/[1]
Hyphenation: dis‧on‧est

dishonest (comparative more dishonest, superlative most dishonest)

Not honest; shoddy.
- 2025 October 27, Russell Berman, quoting Donald Trump, “‘California Is Allowed to Hit Back’”, in The Atlantic‎[2], archived from the original on 4 November 2025:
  “Watch how totally dishonest the California Prop vote is!” Trump fumed on Truth Social over the weekend.
Interfering with honesty.
(obsolete) Dishonorable; shameful; indecent; unchaste; lewd.
(obsolete) Dishonoured; disgraced; disfigured.
- 1697, Virgil, “The Sixth Book of the Æneis”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
  Dishonest with lopped arms the youth appears, / Spoiled of his nose and shortened of his ears.

Collocations

dishonest man
dishonest person
dishonest people
dishonest act
dishonest means
dishonest way
dishonest thing
dishonest practices
dishonest conduct
dishonest behavior
dishonest employee
dishonest appropriation
dishonest assistance
dishonest gain

not honest

Albanian: pander (sq)
Arabic: مُخَادِع (muḵādiʕ), غَشَاش (ḡašāš)
Egyptian Arabic: مخادع (muḵādeʕ), غشاش (ḡašāš)
Armenian: անազնիվ (hy) (anazniv)
Belarusian: несумле́нны (njesumljénny), нячэ́сны (njačésny)
Bulgarian: нече́стен (bg) (nečésten), непочтен (bg) (nepočten)
Catalan: deshonest (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 不誠實 / 不诚实 (bù chéngshí)
Czech: nečestný, nepoctivý (cs)
Danish: uærlig (da)
Dutch: oneerlijk (nl), onoprecht (nl)
Finnish: epärehellinen (fi)
French: malhonnête (fr)
German: unehrlich (de)
Gothic: 𐌻𐌹𐌿𐍄𐍃 (liuts)
Greek: άτιμος (el) (átimos), ανέντιμος (el) (anéntimos)
Hindi: बेईमान (hi) (beīmān)
Hungarian: becstelen (hu)
Hunsrik: uneherlich
Irish: ainionraic, mí-ionraic, mímhacánta
Italian: disonesto (it)
Japanese: 不正直 (ふしょうじき, fushōjiki)
Korean: 부정직하다 (ko) (bujeongjikhada)
Latin: fraudulentus, perfidus (la)
Māori: raureka, tāhae
Middle English: unhoneste
Norwegian:
Bokmål: uærlig
Nynorsk: uærleg
Old English: unsōþfæst
Polish: nieuczciwy (pl) m
Portuguese: desonesto (pt) m
Romanian: necinstit (ro)
Russian: нече́стный (ru) (nečéstnyj), бесче́стный (ru) (besčéstnyj)
Sanskrit: कौट (sa) (kauṭa)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: нѐискрен
Latin: nèiskren (sh)
Slovene: neiskrén m
Spanish: embustero (es), mentiroso (es), deshonesto (es)
Swedish: oärlig (sv)
Turkish:
Ottoman Turkish: ناموسسز (namussuz) (dishonorable)
Ukrainian: нече́сний (nečésnyj), несумлі́нний (nesumlínnyj)
Welsh: anonest (cy)

^ Jespersen, Otto (1909), A Modern English Grammar on Historical Principles (Sammlung germanischer Elementar- und Handbücher; 9)‎[1], volume I: Sounds and Spellings, London: George Allen & Unwin, published 1961, § 6.64, page 203.

“dishonest”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
“dishonest”, in Merriam-Webster.com Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
“dishonest”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
“dishonest”, in Collins English Dictionary, 2011–present.
“dishonest” (US) / “dishonest” (UK) in Macmillan English Dictionary.
hedonists, stonished

dishonest

alternative form of dishoneste (“disgraceful”)

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