Antonyms of adj dishonest

2 senses of dishonest

Sense 1
dishonest (vs. honest), dishonorable -- (deceptive or fraudulent; disposed to cheat or defraud or deceive)

honest (vs. dishonest), honorable -- (not disposed to cheat or defraud; not deceptive or fraudulent; "honest lawyers"; "honest reporting")
        => downright -- (characterized by plain blunt honesty; "a downright answer"; "a downright kind of person")

Sense 2
corruptible, bribable, dishonest, purchasable, venal -- (capable of being corrupted; "corruptible judges"; "dishonest politicians"; "a purchasable senator"; "a venal police officer")

INDIRECT (VIA corrupt) -> incorrupt -- (free of corruption or immorality; "a policeman who was incorrupt and incorruptible")

Similarity of adj dishonest

2 senses of dishonest

Sense 1
dishonest (vs. honest), dishonorable -- (deceptive or fraudulent; disposed to cheat or defraud or deceive)
       => ambidextrous, deceitful, double-dealing, duplicitous, Janus-faced, two-faced, double-faced, double-tongued -- (marked by deliberate deceptiveness especially by pretending one set of feelings and acting under the influence of another; "she was a deceitful scheming little thing"- Israel Zangwill; "a double-dealing double agent"; "a double-faced infernal traitor and schemer"- W.M.Thackeray)
       => beguiling -- (misleading by means of pleasant or alluring methods; "taken in by beguiling tales of overnight fortunes")
       => deceitful, fallacious, fraudulent -- (intended to deceive; "deceitful advertising"; "fallacious testimony"; "smooth, shining, and deceitful as thin ice" - S.T.Coleridge; "a fraudulent scheme to escape paying taxes")
       => deceptive, misleading, shoddy -- (designed to deceive or mislead either deliberately or inadvertently; "the deceptive calm in the eye of the storm"; "deliberately deceptive packaging"; "a misleading similarity"; "statistics can be presented in ways that are misleading"; "shoddy business practices")
       => false -- (designed to deceive; "a suitcase with a false bottom")
       => picaresque -- (involving clever rogues or adventurers especially as in a type of fiction; "picaresque novels"; "waifs of the picaresque tradition"; "a picaresque hero")
       => rascally, roguish, scoundrelly, blackguardly -- (lacking principles or scruples; "the rascally rabble"; "the tyranny of a scoundrelly aristocracy" - W.M. Thackaray; "the captain was set adrift by his roguish crew")
       => thieving (prenominal), thievish -- (given to thievery)
          Also See-> crooked#2, corrupt#2; dishonorable#1, dishonourable#1; false#1; insincere#1; untrustworthy#1, untrusty#1

Sense 2
corruptible, bribable, dishonest, purchasable, venal -- (capable of being corrupted; "corruptible judges"; "dishonest politicians"; "a purchasable senator"; "a venal police officer")
       => corrupt (vs. incorrupt) -- (lacking in integrity; "humanity they knew to be corrupt...from the day of Adam's creation"; "a corrupt and incompetent city government")

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