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Dishonor; dishonorableness; shame. [Obs.] "The hidden things of dishonesty." 2 Cor. iv. 2.

o room to suspect artifice and collusion. Atterbury. By the ignorance of the merchants or dishonesty of the weavers, or the collusion of both, the ware was bad and the price excessive. Swift.

Lack of probity; want of integrity or rectitude; dishonesty. Persons . . . cast out for notorious improbity. Hooker.

lly strong or well disposed; -- used with reference to some evil; as, incapable of wrong, dishonesty, or falsehood.

Deviation from an upright or straightforward course; unfairness; dishonesty. W. Montagu.

ehood be but carefully and early instilled, that is the true and genuin method to obviate dishonesty. Locke.

The quality or state of being knavish; knavery; dishonesty.

red in a low and vulgar condition of life; mean dishonorable; contemptible; as, low-lived dishonesty.

conduct consistently directing one's actions; as, a person of no principle. All kinds of dishonesty destroy our pretenses to an honest principle of mind. Law.

The quality or state of being rascally, or a rascal; mean trickishness or dishonesty; base fraud.

or dishonest; base; worthless; -- often in humorous disparagement, without implication of dishonesty. Our rascally porter is fallen fast asleep. Swift.

as if by an imprinted mark; current value; authority; as, these persons have the stamp of dishonesty; the Scriptures bear the stamp of a divine origin. Of the same stamp is that which is obtruded on us, that an adamant suspends the attraction of the loadstone. Sir T. Browne.