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| Main Entry: | dishonesty |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lying; unwillingness to tell the truth |
| Synonyms: | artifice, bunk, cheating, chicanery, corruption, craft, cunning, deceit, double-dealing, duplicity, faithlessness, falsehood, falsity, flimflam*, fraud, graft, guile, hanky-panky*, hocus-pocus*, infamy, infidelity, mendacity, racket, stealing, swindle, treachery, trickery, chicane, criminality, crookedness, fourberie, fraudulence, improbity, insidiousness, perfidiousness, perfidy, rascality, sharp practice, slyness, trickiness, unscrupulousness, wiliness |
| Antonyms: | fairness, frankness, honesty, sincerity, truthfulness, openness, scrupulousness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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| Main Entry: | dishonesty |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Adjectives: |
little, low, time, Machiavellian, abject, any, base, base, blackguard, contemptible, corrupt, crooked, dark, dead to honor, debased, degraded, derogatory, dirty, disgraceful, dishonest, dishonorable, disingenuous, disloyal, double, emptitious, faithless, false, false, fishy, foul, fraudulent, groveling, ignominious, indign, infamous, inglorious, insidious, knavish, lost to shame, louche, mean, mongrel, of bad faith, one, perfidious, perjured, pettifogging, rascally, recreant, scabby, schlenter, scrubby, scurvy, shabby, slippery, sneaking, treacherous, trothless, trustless, truthless, unauthenticated, unbecoming, unbefitting, unbeseeming, unchivalric, unconscientious, unconscionable, undignified, unfair, unfaithful, ungentlemanlike, ungentlemanly, unhandsome, unknightly, unmanly, unscrupulous, untrustworthy, venal, vile, wicked
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| Main Entry: | chicanery |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | deception, trickery |
| Synonyms: | artifice, cheating, dishonesty, dodge, double-dealing*, duplicity, feint, fraud, gambit, hanky-panky*, intrigue, machination, maneuver, plot, ploy, ruse, skullduggery, sophistry, stratagem, subterfuge, chicane, deviousness, double-crossing, fourberie, furtiveness, sharp practice, surreptitiousness, underhandedness, wiles |
| Notes: | duplicity implies double-dealing while chicanery suggests trickery and wiliness |
| Antonyms: | honesty, truthfulness, forthrightness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | double-dealing |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | betrayal, cheating |
| Synonyms: | chicanery, deceit, deception, dishonesty, duplicity, foul play*, fraud, hanky-panky*, hypocrisy, mendacity, treachery, trickery, two-timing, bad faith, chicane, fourberie, perfidy, sharp practice |
| Antonyms: | honesty, truthfulness, forthrightness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | duplicity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | deception |
| Synonyms: | artifice, chicanery, cunning, deceit, dirty pool*, dirty work*, dishonesty, double-dealing, dualism, faithlessness, falsehood, fraud, guile, hypocrisy, one-upmanship, skullduggery, treachery, Judas kiss, dirty dealing, dirty trick, dissemblance, dissimulation, duality, perfidiousness, perfidy, stab in back, treacherousness, two-facedness, twoness |
| Antonyms: | honesty, forthrightness, trustworthiness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | faithlessness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disloyalty |
| Synonyms: | betrayal, disbelief, dishonesty, doubt, fraud, infidelity, skepticism, treachery, treason, unfaithfulness, falseness, fickleness, inconstancy, perfidiousness, perfidy, treacherousness |
| Antonyms: | belief, constancy, faithfulness, loyalty |
| Main Entry: | falsehood |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lie |
| Synonyms: | canard, cover-up, deceit, deception, dishonesty, distortion, equivocation, error, fable, fabrication, fallacy, falsity, fib, fiction, figment, fraud, hogwash*, line, mendacity, misstatement, perjury, pretense, prevarication, sham*, story, tale, tall tale*, untruth, whopper*, yarn, dissimulation, erroneousness, fakery, fallaciousness, falseness, feigning, fibbery, half truth, untruism, untruthfulness |
| Antonyms: | truth |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | guile |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | slyness, cleverness |
| Synonyms: | artifice, chicanery, craft, cunning, deceit, deception, dirty pool*, dirty work*, dishonesty, double-cross*, duplicity, foul play*, run-around*, ruse, stab in the back*, treachery, trickery, artfulness, craftiness, dirty dealing, dirty trick, dissemblance, dissimulation, jive*, sellout, sharp practice, trickiness, wiliness |
| Antonyms: | artlessness, frankness, honesty, sincerity, naivety, openness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | hypocrisy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | deceitfulness, pretense |
| Synonyms: | affectation, bigotry, cant, casuistry, deceit, deception, dishonesty, display, double-dealing, duplicity, falsity, fraud, imposture, insincerity, irreverence, lie, lip service*, mockery, quackery, bad faith, dissembling, dissimulation, false profession, glibness, pharisaicalness, pharisaism, phoniness, pietism, sanctimoniousness, sanctimony, speciousness, unctuousness |
| Antonyms: | honesty, righteousness, sincerity, truth, forthrightness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | lie |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | untruth |
| Synonyms: | aspersion, backbiting, calumny, deceit, deception, defamation, detraction, dishonesty, distortion, evasion, fable, fabrication, falsehood, falsity, fib, fiction, forgery, guile, hyperbole, inaccuracy, invention, libel, mendacity, misrepresentation, misstatement, myth, obloquy, perjury, prevarication, slander, subterfuge, tale, white lie*, whopper, calumniation, disinformation, falseness, falsification, fraudulence, revilement, reviling, tall story, vilification |
| Antonyms: | honesty, truth |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | perjury |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lying while under oath |
| Synonyms: | deceitfulness, deception, dishonesty, falsehood, untruth, false oath, false swearing, false testimony, falsification, untruthfulness |
| Main Entry: | treason |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disloyalty |
| Synonyms: | crime, deceit, deceitfulness, deception, disaffection, dishonesty, duplicity, faithlessness, mutiny, revolt, revolutionary, sedition, subversion, treachery, breach of faith, lèse- majesté, perfidy, seditious act, seditiousness, traitorousness |
| Antonyms: | allegiance, devotion, faithfulness, fidelity, loyalty |
| Main Entry: | trickery |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | deception, joke |
| Synonyms: | cheat, cheating, chicanery, con, deceit, dishonesty, dodge, double-cross*, double-dealing*, flimflam*, fraud, guile, hoax, imposture, pretense, quackery, scam, shell game*, shenanigans*, snow job*, sting*, stunt, bait and switch, chicane, dupery, fast shuffle, fourberie, funny business, razzle-dazzle, sharp practice, swindling, underhandedness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | wile |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | cunning |
| Synonyms: | angle, artifice, cheating, chicanery, con*, contrivance, craft, deceit, deception, device, dishonesty, dodge, feint, flimflam*, fraud, gambit, game, gimmick, guile, hoax, horseplay, imposition, lure, maneuver, monkey business*, plot, ploy, racket*, ruse, scam*, scheming, setup, shenanigans*, skullduggery*, slant, stratagem, stunt, subterfuge, switch, trick, trickery, twist, artfulness, chicane, craftiness, dissimulation, little game, monkeyshines, slyness |
| Antonyms: | stupidity, naivety |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | cheating |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lying |
| Synonyms: | deception, dishonesty, deceiving, defrauding |
| Main Entry: | insincerity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | distortion |
| Synonyms: | deceitfulness, deception, dishonesty, falsity, hypocrisy, pretense, lies |
| Main Entry: | prevarication |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | deception |
| Synonyms: | deceitfulness, dishonesty, distortion, equivocation, falsehood, fib, lie |
| Main Entry: | quackery |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | charlatanism |
| Synonyms: | deceitfulness, deception, dishonesty, imposture, misrepresentation, pretense, trickery |
| Main Entry: | venality |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | corruptness |
| Synonyms: | dishonesty, sordidness, vendibility |
| Main Entry: | betrayal |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | exhibition of disloyalty |
| Synonyms: | deception, dishonesty, double-dealing, duplicity, treachery, treason, trickery, unfaithfulness, Judas kiss, double-crossing, falseness, giveaway, let-down, perfidy, sellout |
| Antonyms: | faithfulness, loyalty, protection, support |
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