dishonesty

DEFINITIONS OF: dishonesty

Types:: show 18 types...; hide 18 types...; corruption, corruptness
lack of integrity or honesty (especially susceptibility to bribery); use of a position of trust for dishonest gain; unscrupulousness
the quality of unscrupulous dishonesty; deceptiveness, obliquity
the quality of being deceptive; deceit, fraudulence
the quality of being fraudulent; crookedness, deviousness
the quality of being deceitful and underhanded; rascality, shiftiness, slipperiness, trickiness
the quality of being a slippery rascal; larcenous, thievishness
having a disposition to steal; untruthfulness
the quality of being untruthful; disingenuousness
the quality of being disingenuous and lacking candor; equivocation, evasiveness, prevarication
intentionally vague or ambiguous; infection
moral corruption or contamination; venality
prostitution of talents or offices or services for reward; falseness, hollowness, insincerity
the quality of not being open or truthful; deceitful or hypocritical; meretriciousness, speciousness
an appearance of truth that is false or deceptive; seeming plausibility; jobbery
corruptness among public officials; mendacity
the tendency to be untruthful; craftiness, deceitfulness, guile
the quality of being crafty; artfulness
the quality of being adroit in taking unfair advantage

Types:: show 9 types...; hide 9 types...; betrayal, perfidy, treachery, treason
an act of deliberate betrayal; charlatanism, quackery
the dishonesty of a charlatan; trick
an attempt to get you to do something foolish or imprudent; falsehood, falsification
the act of rendering something false as by fraudulent changes (of documents or measures etc.) or counterfeiting; double cross, double-crossing
an act of betrayal; sellout
an act of betrayal; frame-up, setup
an act that incriminates someone on a false charge; sophistication
falsification by the use of sophistry; misleading by means of specious fallacies; forgery
criminal falsification by making or altering an instrument with intent to defraud

Type of:: actus reus, misconduct, wrongdoing, wrongful conduct
activity that transgresses moral or civil law

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