Definition of "dishonest"

dishonest

/dɪˈsɒnɪst/

adjective
comparative more dishonest, superlative most dishonest
1. Not honest.
2. Interfering with honesty.
3. (obsolete) Dishonourable; shameful; indecent; unchaste; lewd.
  Quotations
  inglorious triumphs and dishonest scars
  1713, Alexander Pope, “Windsor-Forest. […]”, in The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope, volume I, London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintot, […], published 1717
  speake dishonest word
  c. '1560, Thomas North, Archontorologion
4. (obsolete) Dishonoured; disgraced; disfigured.
  Quotations
  Dishonest with lopped arms the youth appears, / Spoiled of his nose and shortened of his ears.
  1697, Virgil, “The Sixth Book of the Æneis”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […]