Examples of dishonest in a Sentence
She gave dishonest answers to our questions.
I think he is being dishonest about how much he knows
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Erdoğan mocked these initiatives and described them as dishonest.
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Kaya Genç, The Dial, 3 Feb. 2026
Even Americans who have grown habituated to Trump’s excesses have been shaken by these killings and the reflexively cruel and dishonest response from the administration.
—Hillary Rodham Clinton, The Atlantic, 29 Jan. 2026
The fact that people have to be dishonest with each other.
—Stephanie Petit, PEOPLE, 29 Jan. 2026
Like the other characters in the book, Harper is a stock figure, the brainiac child, but her fearlessness in the face of a crumbling, dishonest world reinvigorates the type.
—Hannah Gold, New Yorker, 21 Jan. 2026
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Kaya Genç, The Dial, 3 Feb. 2026
Even Americans who have grown habituated to Trump’s excesses have been shaken by these killings and the reflexively cruel and dishonest response from the administration.
—Hillary Rodham Clinton, The Atlantic, 29 Jan. 2026
The fact that people have to be dishonest with each other.
—Stephanie Petit, PEOPLE, 29 Jan. 2026
Like the other characters in the book, Harper is a stock figure, the brainiac child, but her fearlessness in the face of a crumbling, dishonest world reinvigorates the type.
—Hannah Gold, New Yorker, 21 Jan. 2026
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“Dishonest.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dishonest. Accessed 14 Feb. 2026.
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dishonest
adjective
dis·hon·est
(ˈ)dis-ˈän-əst 
: not honest or trustworthy : deceitful
dishonest people
dishonestly
adverb
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