DISHONESTY

Dishonesty

Dishonesty is to act without honesty. It is used to describe a lack of probity, cheating, lying or being deliberately deceptive or a lack in integrity, knavishness, perfidiosity, corruption or treacherousness. Dishonesty is the fundamental component of a majority of offences relating to the acquisition, conversion and disposal of property defined in criminal law such as fraud.

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dishonesty

Noun

  1. The characteristic or condition of being dishonest.
  2. An act which is fraudulent or otherwise dishonest.


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