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Dishonest vs Deceitful - What's the difference?

dishonest | deceitful |

As adjectives the difference between dishonest and deceitful

is that dishonest is not honest while deceitful is deliberately misleading or cheating.

dishonest

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Not honest.
  • Interfering with honesty.
  • (obsolete) Dishonourable; shameful; indecent; unchaste; lewd.
  • * Alexander Pope
  • inglorious triumphs and dishonest scars
  • * Sir T. North
  • Speak no foul or dishonest words before them [the women].
  • (obsolete) Dishonoured; disgraced; disfigured.
  • * Dryden
  • Dishonest with lopped arms the youth appears, / Spoiled of his nose and shortened of his ears.

    Antonyms

    * honest

    deceitful

    English

    Alternative forms

    * deceiptful (obsolete) * deceiptfull (obsolete) * deceitfull (archaic)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • deliberately misleading or cheating
  • deceptive in multiple ways
  • Synonyms

    * See also