Synonyms for dishonesty
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Noun
1. Duplicity
duplicity, fraud, fraudulence, double-dealing, chicanery, bad faith, cheating, falsehood, deceitfulness, corruption, treachery, skulduggery, skullduggery US, faithlessness, crookedness, indirection, improbity, knavery, unscrupulousness, deceit, trickery
Other
under-handedness, unhonesty dated
Definitions
- n. 1
The characteristic or condition of being dishonest.
Forms
- Plural
- dishonesties → duplicities, frauds, fraudulences, double-dealings…
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All action that is not honest is dishonesty, but the term dishonesty is generally applied in business, politics, etc., to deceitful practises which are not directly criminal.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- fraud Academic fraud is more common than you might think.
- duplicity Tom is often accused of duplicity.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| dishonesty | steady | |
| fraud | rising | |
| duplicity | steady | |
| fraudulence | rising |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 5 letters
- fraud1
- 6 letters
- deceit2
- 7 letters
- knavery
- 8 letters
- cheating2, trickery3
- 9 letters
- treachery3, falsehood2, duplicity4, chicanery4, improbity, unhonesty
- 10 letters
- corruption3
- 11 letters
- skulduggery4, indirection, fraudulence, crookedness3
- 12 letters
- skullduggery
- 13 letters
- deceitfulness, faithlessness
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (deceit2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- malhonnêteté
- Italiano
- disonestà
- Español
- deshonestidad