Respectable vs Unhonest - What's the difference?
respectable | unhonest |
Deserving respect.
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*:In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass. In this way all respectable burgesses, down to fifty years ago, spent their evenings.
Decent; satisfactory.
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(obsolete) Discreditable (of actions, language etc.); unseemly, morally reprehensible.
(obsolete) Dishonourable (of people); immoral, not respectable.
*, III.2.2.ii:
*:‘We envy’ (saith Isocrates) ‘wise, just, honest men […]’ though they be otherwise vicious, unhonest ; we love them, favour them, and are ready to do them any good office for their beauty's sake, though they have no other good quality beside.
(obsolete) Dishonest.
As adjectives the difference between respectable and unhonest
is that respectable is deserving respect while unhonest is (obsolete) discreditable (of actions, language etc); unseemly, morally reprehensible.respectable
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(en adjective)Antonyms
* disrespectableDerived terms
* respectablyunhonest
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(en adjective)- (Ascham)
