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dishonestly

/dis-on-ist/US // dɪsˈɒn ɪst //UK // (dɪsˈɒnɪst) //

不诚实地,不诚实,不诚实的,不忠实地

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : not honest; disposed to lie, cheat, or steal; not worthy of trust or belief: a dishonest person.
    • : proceeding from or exhibiting lack of honesty; fraudulent: a dishonest advertisement.

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Examples

  • He portrays the administration as ignornant, incompetent, dishonest and more concerned with public relations spin than saving lives.

  • The retraction in June of two papers on covid-19 in the Lancet and the New England Journal of Medicine, after researchers put too much trust in a dishonest collaborator, is an example of what happens when epistemic dependence is mishandled.

  • I’ve also heard about another group of people who were out in full force—dishonest people trying to trick or steal money that everyday people work so hard to earn.

  • The letter informing her of her July 2019 decertification said she had been dishonest about the incident involving the vehicle, she said.

  • Additionally, we reserve the right to ban polls sponsored by a particular organization that consistently engages in dishonest or nontransparent behavior that goes beyond editorializing and political spin.

  • How can the police do that if the community views them as dishonest, or even dangerous?

  • Bureaucracies are inefficient and dishonest—maybe not intentionally . . . but because there are too many moving parts.

  • Trying to put the onus onto someone else for your own decisions is really cowardly and kind of dishonest.

  • The Bar determined his failure to inform his client was both dishonest and deceitful.

  • She never lied to him or was dishonest to him, and we were very careful to point that out in the movie, but Tom needed to grow up.

  • All the miserable stratagems they had been guilty of to win him; the dishonest plotting and planning.

  • The door should not be left open, as dishonest persons, passing along the entry, could enter without fear of being questioned.

  • The Ministers found that, on this occasion, neither their honest nor their dishonest supporters could be trusted.

  • Thus, to import insanity or incompetency to a professional man, or that a public official is dishonest and corrupt is actionable.

  • An honest man, with all his modesty, cannot prevent people saying of him what a dishonest man says of himself.