Synonyms and Antonyms of dishonesty
1
the tendency to tell lies
- if you gain a reputation for dishonesty, no one will believe you even when you're telling the truth
artifice, craft, craftiness, crookedness, cunning, dissembling, dissimulation, double-dealing, duplicity, fakery, foxiness, guile, guilefulness, insincerity, trickishness, wiliness
falseness
hypocrisy
honor, incorruptibility
candidness, candor, frankness, good faith, plainspokenness, sincerity, straightforwardness
dependability, reliability, reliableness, trustworthiness
accuracy, objectivity
authenticity, correctness, genuineness
credibility
2
the inclination or practice of misleading others through lies or trickery
- a religious cult that recruits members through dishonesty and subterfuge
artifice, cheating, cozenage, craft, craftiness, crookedness, crookery, cunning, cunningness, deceit, deceitfulness, deception, deceptiveness, dissembling, dissimulation, double-dealing, dupery, duplicity, fakery, foxiness, fraud, guile, guilefulness, wiliness
equivocation, lying, mendacity, prevarication
chicane, chicanery, fraudulence, hanky-panky, jugglery, legerdemain, mountebankery, obliquity, skulduggery (or skullduggery), subterfuge, swindling, trickery, wile
falsehood, falsity, fib, untruth
hypocrisy, insincerity, sanctimoniousness, two-facedness
artfulness, caginess (also cageyness), deviousness, shrewdness
treacherousness, underhandedness, unscrupulousness
covertness, furtiveness, secrecy, shadiness, sneakiness, stealthiness
oiliness, shiftiness, slickness, slipperiness, slyness, smoothness
candidness, candor, directness, frankness, openness, plainness, plainspokenness
honesty, probity
dependability, reliability, reliableness, solidity, trustability, trustiness, trustworthiness
decency, goodness, incorruptibility, integrity, righteousness, truthfulness, uprightness, virtuousness
