Dishonesty
Dishonor; dishonorableness; shame.
Want of honesty, probity, or integrity in principle; want of fairness and straightforwardness; a disposition to defraud, deceive, or betray; faithlessness.
Violation of trust or of justice; fraud; any deviation from probity; a dishonest act.
Lewdness; unchastity.
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Dishonesty Quotations
There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.
Benjamin Franklin
Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.
Plato
The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty.
John Steinbeck
I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.
Charles Dickens
Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.
Horace Mann
The greatest truth is honesty, and the greatest falsehood is dishonesty.
Abu Bakr
I do not believe we can blame genetics for adultery, homosexuality, dishonesty and other character flaws.
Jerry Falwell
Regardless of the moral issue, dishonesty in advertising has proved very unprofitable.
Leo Burnett
Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect.
Stephen Leacock
Dishonesty Translations
dishonesty in German is Unredlichkeit, Unehrlichkeit
dishonesty in Spanish is deshonestidad
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