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| Main Entry: | dishonest |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | lying, untruthful |
| Synonyms: | backbiting*, bent, cheating, corrupt, crafty, crooked, cunning, deceitful, deceptive, designing, disreputable, double-dealing, elusive, false, fraudulent, mendacious, misleading, perfidious, recreant, shady, shifty, sinister, slippery*, sneaky, traitorous, treacherous, tricky, two-faced*, two-timing, unctuous, underhanded, unfair, unprincipled, unscrupulous, untrustworthy, villainous, wily, bluffing, deceiving, double-crossing, guileful, hoodwinking, sneaking, swindling |
| Antonyms: | aboveboard, ethical, fair, frank, honest, moral, open, scrupulous, trustworthy, truthful, principled |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | below the belt |
| Part of Speech: | adjective, adverb |
| Definition: | nastily and unfairly |
| Synonyms: | cowardly, dirty, dishonest, foul, unjust, unscrupulous, unsportsmanlike |
| Main Entry: | disingenuous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | insincere |
| Synonyms: | artful, crooked, cunning, deceitful, designing, dishonest, duplicitous, false, feigned, foxy, indirect, insidious, mendacious, oblique, shifty*, sly, tricky, two-faced*, underhanded, unfair, wily, guileful, uncandid, unfrank |
| Notes: | ingenuous means 'naïve, easily deceived, unsuspecting; foolish' - and disingenuous means 'calculating, deceptive' |
| Antonyms: | frank, honest, ingenuous, naive, sincere |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | double-dealing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | cheating, deceitful |
| Synonyms: | crooked, dishonest, double, duplicitous, fraudulent, hypocritical, insincere, lying, perfidious, sneaky, treacherous, tricky, two-faced*, two-timing, underhanded, untrustworthy, wily, ambidextrous, left- handed, swindling |
| Antonyms: | forthright, honest, truthful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | duplicitous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | deceptive |
| Synonyms: | cheating, deceitful, dishonest, double-dealing, shady, two-faced, two-timing |
| Main Entry: | faithless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | disloyal |
| Synonyms: | capricious, changeable, cheating, deceitful, dishonest, double-dealing*, doubting, dubious, false, fickle, inconstant, perfidious, recreant, skeptical, traitorous, treacherous, two-faced*, two-timing, unbelieving, unfaithful, unreliable, unstable, untrue, untrustworthy, untruthful, wavering, changeful, double-crossing, fluctuating, unconverted, unloyal |
| Antonyms: | believing, constant, faithful, loyal, reliable, true |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fictitious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | untrue, made-up |
| Synonyms: | apocryphal, artificial, assumed, bogus*, chimerical, counterfeit, deceptive, delusive, dishonest, ersatz*, factitious, fake, false, fanciful, fantastic, fashioned, feigned, illusory, imaginary, imagined, improvised, made, make-believe, misleading, mock, mythical, phony, queer, romantic, sham*, simulated, spurious, synthetic, unreal, concocted, cooked-up, created, delusory, fabricated, faked, fictional, fictive, figmental, hyped up, invented, suppositious, supposititious, trumped-up |
| Antonyms: | actual, certain, confirmed, factual, genuine, real, sincere, sure, true, truthful, proven |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | foxy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | shrewd |
| Synonyms: | artful, astute, canny, crafty, cunning, deceitful, deep, devious, dishonest, experienced, insidious, intelligent, knowing, sharp, slick, sly, subtle, tricky, vulpine, wily, guileful, retiary |
| Antonyms: | naive, unintelligent, unclever, unsmart |
| Main Entry: | fraudulent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | deceptive, false |
| Synonyms: | counterfeit, crafty, criminal, crooked, deceitful, devious, dishonest, dishonorable, double-dealing*, duplicitous, fake, forged, mock, phony, pseudo, sham*, spurious, treacherous, tricky, bamboozling, swindling |
| Antonyms: | authentic, genuine, honest, real, valid |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | immoral |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | evil, degenerate |
| Synonyms: | X-rated*, abandoned, bad, corrupt, debauched, depraved, dishonest, dissipated, dissolute, fast*, graceless, impure, indecent, iniquitous, lewd, licentious, loose*, nefarious, obscene, pornographic, profligate, rakish, reprobate, shameless, sinful, speedy, unclean*, unethical, unprincipled, unscrupulous, vicious, vile, villainous, wicked, wrong, of easy virtue, saturnalian, unchaste |
| Antonyms: | chaste, good, moral, noble, pure, right, virtuous, uncorrupt |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | insidious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sneaky, tricky |
| Synonyms: | Machiavellian, artful, astute, corrupt, crafty, crooked, cunning, dangerous, deceitful, deceptive, deep, designing, dishonest, disingenuous, duplicitous, false, foxy, intriguing, perfidious, perilous, secret, slick, sly, smooth, snaky*, stealthy, subtle, surreptitious, treacherous, wily, wormlike, ensnaring, guileful, like a snake in the grass, sneaking |
| Antonyms: | fair, honest, open, sincere |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | misbegotten |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | illegitimate, illicit |
| Synonyms: | bastard, dishonest, disreputable, illegal, natural, poor, shady, spurious, stolen, unlawful, baseborn, suppositious, unrespectable |
| Antonyms: | lawful, legal, legitimate, licit |
| Main Entry: | quack |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | counterfeit |
| Synonyms: | bum*, dishonest, fake, false, fraudulent, phony, pretended, pretentious, pseudo*, sham*, simulated, unprincipled, dissembling |
| Antonyms: | genuine, original, real |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | roguish |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | deceitful; mischievous |
| Synonyms: | crafty, crooked, cunning, deceptive, devilish, dishonest, fraudulent, impish, knavish, lying, naughty, playful, puckish, shifty, slick, sly, sneaky, tricky, underhand, underhanded, unprincipled, untruthful, beguiling, deceiving, rascally |
| Main Entry: | shifty |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | deceitful, untrustworthy |
| Synonyms: | cagey, collusive, crafty, crooked, cunning, devious, dishonest, duplicitous, elusive, evasive, fly-by-night*, foxy, fraudulent, furtive, insidious, lying, mendacious, roguish, scheming, shady, shrewd, slick, slimy*, slippery, sly, sneaky, treacherous, tricky, underhand, unprincipled, untruthful, wily, conniving, contriving, dodging, equivocating, prevaricative, prevaricatory, shuffling, unhonest |
| Antonyms: | forthright, frank, honest, trustworthy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | sinister |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | nasty, menacing |
| Synonyms: | adverse, apocalyptic, bad, baleful, baneful, corrupt, deleterious, dire, disastrous, dishonest, disquieting, evil, foreboding, harmful, hurtful, ill-boding, inauspicious, injurious, lowering, malevolent, malign, malignant, mischievous, obnoxious, ominous, pernicious, perverse, poisonous, portentous, threatening, unfavorable, unfortunate, unlucky, unpropitious, woeful, blackhearted, doomful, malefic |
| Antonyms: | benevolent, kind, nice |
| Main Entry: | sly |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | clever, devious |
| Synonyms: | arch, artful, astute, cagey, calculating, canny, captious, covert, crafty, crooked, cunning, deceitful, deceptive, delusive, designing, dishonest, dishonorable, double-dealing, elusive, foxy, furtive, illusory, impish, ingenious, insidious, intriguing, mean, mischievous, roguish, scheming, secret, sharp, shifty, shrewd, slick, smart, smooth, stealthy, subtle, traitorous, treacherous, tricky, underhand, unscrupulous, wily, bluffing, conniving, dissembling, guileful, plotting, sneaking |
| Antonyms: | honest, open, simple, straight, straightforward, unclever |
| Main Entry: | thieving/thievish |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | criminal |
| Synonyms: | crooked, cunning, dishonest, fraudulent, furtive, predatory, rapacious, secretive, sly, stealthy, kleptomaniacal, larcenous, light-fingered, pilfering, piratic, plunderous, spoliative, sticky-fingered |
| Antonyms: | benevolent, philanthropic |
| Main Entry: | trumped up |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | made up |
| Synonyms: | bogus, deceitful, dishonest, fake, false, falsified, fictitious, fishy, framed, fraudulent, imaginary, incorrect, invalid, lying, misleading, phony, sham, unfounded, unsound, untrue, concocted, cooked up, cooked-up, devised, fabricated, invented, made up |
| Main Entry: | two-faced |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | deceitful |
| Synonyms: | artful, crafty, cunning, deceptive, dishonest, double-dealing, foxy, fraudulent, hypocritical, insincere, knavish, lying, misleading, shifty, sly, sneaky, tricky, underhanded, untruthful, backstabbing, beguiling, deceiving, guileful |
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