From Middle English dishoneste, from Old French deshoneste, from Latin dehonestus.

• (British) IPA: /dɪˈsɒnɪst/
• (America) IPA: /dɪˈsɑnɪst/
• IPA: /dɪzˈɒnɛst/, /dɪzˈɒnɪst/

dishonest

1. Not honest.
2. Interfering with honesty.
3. (obsolete) Dishonourable; shameful; indecent; unchaste; lewd.
   • 1713, Alexander Pope, “Windsor-Forest. […]”, in The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope, volume I, London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintot, […], published 1717, →OCLC ↗:

     inglorious triumphs and dishonest scars

   • c. 1560, Thomas North, Archontorologion:

     speake 'dishonest word

4. (obsolete) Dishonoured; disgraced; disfigured.
   • 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, […], →OCLC ↗:

     Dishonest with lopped arms the youth appears, / Spoiled of his nose and shortened of his ears.

• honest

• dishonesty
• dishonestly

• French: malhonnête
• German: unehrlich
• Italian: disonesto
• Portuguese: desonesto
• Russian: нече́стный
• Spanish: embustero, mentiroso, deshonesto