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Unconscientious vs Dishonest - What's the difference?

unconscientious | dishonest |

As adjectives the difference between unconscientious and dishonest

is that unconscientious is not conscientious while dishonest is not honest.

unconscientious

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Not conscientious.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1506, author=John Addington Symonds, title=The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti, chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage=This enabled an unconscientious builder to furnish bulky architectural masses, which presented a specious aspect of solidity and looked more costly than they really were. }}

    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