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Dishonest vs Dissolute - What's the difference?

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Dishonest is a related term of dissolute.


As adjectives the difference between dishonest and dissolute

is that dishonest is not honest while dissolute is unrestrained by morality.

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

    Related terms

    * dishonesty

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    * English words with consonant pseudo-digraphs

    dissolute

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Unrestrained by morality.
  • Recklessly abandoned to sensual pleasures.

    • Synonyms

    * debauched, dissipated, hedonic, lascivious, lewd, libidinous, profligate, wanton

    Related terms

    * dissolutely * dissoluteness

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