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Dishonest or Unhonest - What's the difference?

dishonest | unhonest |

In obsolete terms the difference between unhonest and dishonest

is that unhonest is dishonest while dishonest is dishonoured; disgraced; disfigured.

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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    unhonest

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (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.
    • (Ascham)

    Related terms

    * unhonestly