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dishonesty

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Main Entry: dishonesty
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: lying; unwillingness to tell the truth

Synonyms:

artifice, bunk, cheating, chicane, chicanery, corruption, craft, criminality, crookedness, cunning, deceit, double-dealing, duplicity, faithlessness, falsehood, falsity, flimflam, fourberie, fraud, fraudulence, graft, guile, hanky-panky, hocus-pocus, improbity, infamy, infidelity, insidiousness, mendacity, perfidiousness, perfidy, racket, rascality, sharp practice, slyness, stealing, swindle, treachery, trickery, trickiness, unscrupulousness, wiliness

Antonyms:

fairness, frankness, honesty, openness, scrupulousness, sincerity, truthfulness
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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
Main Entry: artifice
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: cunning; deception

Synonyms:

artfulness, chicanery, craftiness, dishonesty, duplicity, guile, scheming, slyness, trickery, wiliness

Antonyms:

candor, frankness, honesty, honor, ingenuousness, innocence, openness, reality, sincerity, truthfulness
Main Entry: betrayal
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: exhibition of disloyalty

Synonyms:

Judas kiss, deception, dishonesty, double-crossing, double-dealing, duplicity, falseness, giveaway, let-down, perfidy, sellout, treachery, treason, trickery, unfaithfulness

Antonyms:

faithfulness, loyalty, protection, support
Main Entry: cant
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: hypocritical statement

Synonyms:

affected piety, deceit, dishonesty, humbug, hypocrisy, hypocriticalness, insincerity, lip service, pecksniffery, pharisaicalness, pious platitudes, pomposity, pretense, pretentiousness, sanctimoniousness, sanctimony, sham holiness, show
Main Entry: chicanery
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: deception, trickery

Synonyms:

artifice, cheating, chicane, deviousness, dishonesty, dodge, double-crossing, double-dealing, duplicity, feint, fourberie, fraud, furtiveness, gambit, hanky-panky, intrigue, machination, maneuver, plot, ploy, ruse, sharp practice, skullduggery, sophistry, stratagem, subterfuge, surreptitiousness, underhandedness, wiles
Notes: duplicity implies double-dealing while chicanery suggests trickery and wiliness

Antonyms:

forthrightness, honesty, truthfulness
Main Entry: deceit
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: practice of misleading

Synonyms:

ambidexterity, ambidextrousness, artifice, cheating, chicane, chicanery, cozening, craft, craftiness, cunning, deceitfulness, deception, defrauding, dirty dealing, dirty pool, dishonesty, dissemblance, dissimulation, double-dealing, duplicity, entrapping, fraud, fraudulence, guile, hypocrisy, imposition, overreaching, pretense, slyness, smoke and mirrors, trapping, treachery, trickery, two-facedness, two-timing, underhandedness

Antonyms:

frankness, honesty, openness, truth, truthfulness, uprightness
Main Entry: double-dealing
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: betrayal, cheating

Synonyms:

bad faith, chicane, chicanery, deceit, deception, dishonesty, duplicity, foul play, fourberie, fraud, hanky-panky, hypocrisy, mendacity, perfidy, sharp practice, treachery, trickery, two-timing

Antonyms:

forthrightness, honesty, truthfulness
Main Entry: duplicity
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: deception

Synonyms:

Judas kiss, artifice, chicanery, cunning, deceit, dirty dealing, dirty pool, dirty trick, dirty work, dishonesty, dissemblance, dissimulation, double-dealing, dualism, duality, faithlessness, falsehood, fraud, guile, hypocrisy, one-upmanship, perfidiousness, perfidy, skullduggery, stab in back, treacherousness, treachery, two-facedness, twoness

Antonyms:

forthrightness, honesty, trustworthiness
Main Entry: faithlessness
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: disloyalty

Synonyms:

betrayal, disbelief, dishonesty, doubt, falseness, fickleness, fraud, inconstancy, infidelity, perfidiousness, perfidy, skepticism, treacherousness, treachery, treason, unfaithfulness

Antonyms:

belief, constancy, faithfulness, loyalty
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