Adjective
- 1. dishonest (vs. honest), dishonorable, ambidextrous, deceitful, double-dealing, duplicitous, Janus-faced, two-faced, double-faced, double-tongued, beguiling, deceitful, fallacious, fraudulent, deceptive, misleading, shoddy, false, picaresque, rascally, roguish, scoundrelly, blackguardly, thieving(prenominal), thievish, crooked#2, corrupt, dishonorable#1, dishonourable, false, insincere, untrustworthy#1, untrusty
- usage: deceptive or fraudulent; disposed to cheat or defraud or deceive
- 2. corruptible, bribable, dishonest, purchasable, venal, corrupt (vs. incorrupt)
- usage: capable of being corrupted; "corruptible judges"; "dishonest politicians"; "a purchasable senator"; "a venal police officer"
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