How to Use dishonest in a Sentence

dishonest

adjective
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  • She gave dishonest answers to our questions.
  • But a dishonest one will charge $2,000 for the same task.
    — Dallas News, 21 Oct. 2022
  • Even at the time there were some readers who felt that this was dishonest.
    — Adam Kirsch, WSJ, 15 July 2021
  • Last year has to be a low, dishonest year and a triumph for no one but the conceited and dumb.
    — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 5 Jan. 2023
  • Being dishonest to try to sway the results will not lead you down the best road for your future.
    — Tarot Astrologers, chicagotribune.com, 30 Aug. 2021
  • Yaroslavsky, in turn, said Yebri had been dishonest in his portrayal of her.
    — David Zahniserstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 4 June 2022
  • The important thing here is that the leak was destructive and dishonest and wrong.
    — Charles C. W. Cooke, National Review, 6 May 2022
  • What a selfish, dishonest question, one asked as if the answer weren’t staring us straight in the face.
    — Matthew Desmond, The New York Review of Books, 21 Mar. 2023
  • The elephant in the O2 Arena felt rude to mention, but dishonest not to: at some point in the past six months, Madonna had gotten the facelift to end all facelifts.
    — Meaghan Garvey, Vulture, 3 Nov. 2023
  • Some of the points raised against this proposal are so dishonest as to beggar belief.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2021
  • That would make for bad predictions and dishonest polling.
    — G. Elliott Morris, ABC News, 26 Sep. 2023
  • An infectious and dishonest smile that will kill you in seven days?
    — Will Bedingfield, WIRED, 22 Dec. 2022
  • Free speech is shot, because the press is very dishonest, very dishonest.
    — NBC News, 17 Sep. 2023
  • Chaudhry claims that the woman involved was being dishonest about her version of events.
    — Angel Saunders, Peoplemag, 9 Aug. 2023
  • The coaches will surely try to pick the best player for each position, and if that’s the case, to suggest anything else would be dishonest.
    — Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2024
  • The goal of this tactic is not to convince the public that the leader is innocent, but to portray all politicians are dishonest.
    — Barbara McQuade, Time, 12 June 2023
  • But the case against Israel from South Africa is incredibly weak and dishonest.
    — The Editors, National Review, 19 Jan. 2024
  • As with today, slant and bias led to dishonest reporting.
    — Ray Nothstine, National Review, 11 Nov. 2023
  • His hateful and dishonest rhetoric this week on the subject of voting laws gives voters no reason to alter their views.
    — James Freeman, WSJ, 13 Jan. 2022
  • The Biden Families Plan is even more dishonest than usual.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 28 June 2021
  • And Biden's pleas for dishonest people to act in good faith have not yielded any meaningful results...
    — Oliver Darcy, CNN, 21 Dec. 2021
  • That said, Manchin's op-ed is still blatantly dishonest.
    — Ryan Cooper, The Week, 4 Sep. 2021
  • Chaudhry also claimed that the woman involved was being dishonest about her version of events.
    — Alexis Jones, Peoplemag, 24 Sep. 2023
  • Job seekers aren’t the only ones who are dishonest during the interview process.
    — Essence, 16 Oct. 2023
  • But calling what happened in the last month in our imaginary city anything other than a car-theft wave is dishonest.
    — Dominic Pino, National Review, 18 July 2021
  • Someone has to call out Saban for being dishonest, though.
    — Joseph Goodman | Jgoodman@al.com, al, 19 May 2022
  • Ads have cast both candidates as dishonest and too partisan for the swing district.
    — oregonlive, 28 Oct. 2022
  • To be sure, politicians have always wielded language in dishonest ways to serve their agendas.
    — Mark Edmundson, Harper’s Magazine , 12 Dec. 2022
  • Whatever the outcome, your dishonest stepson is the lesser for it.
    — Annie Lane, oregonlive, 17 Dec. 2022
  • As a denier of the 2020 election results (in lockstep with a dishonest ex-president), Ms. Lake fails the character test.
    — WSJ, 24 Oct. 2022

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