The antonyms for the word "honest" include deceitful, dishonest, insincere, and false. These words suggest a lack of integrity, trustworthiness, and truthfulness. When someone is deceitful, they intentionally mislead or deceive others for personal gain or to avoid consequences. When someone is dishonest, they consistently tell lies or fail to disclose important information. Being insincere means that someone is not genuine or truthful in their actions or words. Lastly, someone is false when they pretend to be someone they are not or make claims that are untrue. It is important to be aware of these antonyms as they can be easily mistaken for honesty and can harm personal and professional relationships.

What are the antonyms for Honest?

a. & p. p.
• noun
- bent
adj.
• acute
- dis criminating
- dis-criminating
- in tense
- in tenser
- in-tense
- in-tenser
- in-tensest
- quick witted
- quickwitted
• all
- dishonest
• associated with unethical activity
- complicit
• bad
- beastlier
- beastliest
- bottom out
- conscience stricken
- consciencestricken
- cruddier
- cruddiest
- cruddy
- de pressed
- de-pressed
- diddlier
- diddliest
- dis agreeable
- dis eased
- dis obedient
- dis pleasing
- dis satisfactory
- dis tressed
- dis-agreeable
- dis-eased
- dis-obedient
- dis-pleasing
- dis-satisfactory
- dis-tressed
- godawful
- grodier
- grodiest
- grody
- ill behaved
- illbehaved
- in adequate
- in pain
- in-adequate
- in-correct
- junkier
- junkiest
- junky
- mis behaving
- mis-behaving
- more downer
- more garbage
- more ill behaved
- more ill-behaved
- more misbehaving
- more troubling
- most downer
- most garbage
- most godawful
- most ill behaved
- most ill-behaved
- most illbehaved
- most inferior
- most misbehaving
- most troubling
- not good
- pitser
- pitsest
- poorer
- ruinous
- sad
- sub standard
- sub-standard
- the pits
- un acceptable
- un favorable
- un fortunate
- un happier
- un happiest
- un happy
- un healthier
- un healthiest
- un healthy
- un pleasant
- un satisfactory
- un-acceptable
- un-favorable
- un-fortunate
- un-happy
- un-healthier
- un-healthiest
- un-healthy
- un-pleasant
- un-satisfactory
- up set
- up-set
- wicked
• base
- dis graceful
- dis honorable
- dis reputable
- dis-graceful
- dis-honorable
- dis-reputable
- grovelling
- in delicate
- in-delicate
- menial
- more grovelling
- most grovelling
- scandalous
- shoddy
- un worthier
- un worthiest
- un worthy
- un-worthier
- un-worthiest
- un-worthy
- wretched
• bent, angled
- crooked
• bitter
- dis tasteful
- dis-tasteful
- in temperate
- in-clement
- in-temperate
- un-palatable
• bogus
- dummier
- dummiest
- more imitation
- most imitation
- not what is cracked be
- not what is cracked to be
- not what is cracked up be
- not what is cracked up to be
- not what it is cracked to be
- not what it is cracked up be
- not what it is cracked up to be
- pre-tended
• bribable, corruptible
- venal
• calculating
• canny
- Hepper
- Worldlywise
- having fancy footwork
- hep
- more nimble witted
- more nimble-witted
- more nimblewitted
- more streetwise
- most nimble witted
- most nimble-witted
- most nimblewitted
- most streetwise
- nimble witted
- nimble-witted
- streetwise
- worldly wise
• clandestine
- cloak and dagger
- hush hush
- hushhush
- in holes corners
- more under the counter
- more under-the-counter
- most under the counter
- most under-the-counter
- on q t
- on qt
- on quiet
- on the q t
- on the quiet
- under ground
- under-cover
- under-the-counter
• clandestine, underhanded
- covert
• clever, artful
- canny
• clever, devious
- sly
• clever, intelligent
- shrewd
• clever, scheming
- crafty
• clever; brilliant
- ingenious
• colored
- hued
- mis represented
- mis-represented
- more angled
- more dyed
- more misrepresented
- more stained
- more tinged
- more warped
- most angled
- most dyed
- most hued
- most misrepresented
- most stained
- most tinged
- most warped
- one sided
- onesided
- pre possessed
- pre-possessed
- tampered with
• complicated, difficult
- tricky
• corrupt
- bribable
- de filed
- de graded
- de-filed
- de-graded
- dis honored
- dis solute
- dis-honored
- dis-solute
- gone dogs
- gone the dogs
- gone to dogs
- gone to the dogs
- in famous
- in-constant
- more abased
- more bribable
- more contaminated
- more exploiting
- more infected
- more polluted
- more profiteering
- more putrescent
- more suborned
- most abased
- most bribable
- most exploiting
- most infected
- most polluted
- most profiteering
- most suborned
- on take
- on the take
- praetorian
- profiteering
- putrescent
- racket up
- shady
- snide
- two faced
- twofaced
- un faithful
- un-faithful
- unprincipled
- wide open
• corrupt, deteriorated
- degenerate
• corrupt, immoral
- depraved
• counterfeit
- Crocker
- bogus
- crockest
- more faked
- more hollywood
- more put on
- more put-on
- most faked
- most put on
- most puton
- not genuine
- not kosher
- plantest
- puton
- soft shell
- won't fly
- wont fly
• covert
- Incog
- Shrouded
- dis guised
- dis-guised
- in cog
- in-cog
- masked
- more dissembled
- more incog
- more shrouded
- more under the table
- more under-the-table
- most dissembled
- most incog
- most shrouded
- most under the table
- most under-the-table
- un suspected
- under cover
- under-the-table
• cowardly
- recreant
• crafty
- crazy like fox
- foxy
- shrewdest
- slick
• crafty, clever
- wily
• crooked
- Agee
- Incurving
- Knurly
- Tortile
- catawampus
- de formed
- de-formed
- dis figured
- dis-figured
- illegal
- in curving
- in direct
- in-curving
- in-direct
- knurliest
- mis shapen
- mis-shapen
- more contorted
- more disfigured
- more incurving
- more skewed
- more tilted
- more twisting
- most agee
- most catawampus
- most contorted
- most disfigured
- most incurving
- most skewed
- most tilted
- most twisting
- not straight
- out of shape
- out shape
- topsy turvy
- un even
- un lawful
- un-even
- un-lawful
• dangerous
- dangersome
- ex posed
- ex-posed
- in secure
- in securer
- in securest
- in-secure
- in-securer
- in-securest
- more dangersome
- more dynamite
- most dangersome
- on collision course
- pre carious
- pre-carious
- un stable
- un stabler
- un stablest
- un-stable
- un-stabler
- un-stablest
- unsafe
• decayed, decaying
- rotten
• deceitful
- Astucious
- Impostrous
- more astucious
- more deceiving
- more feline
- more impostrous
- more rascal
- most astucious
- most beguiling
- most deceiving
- most feline
- most illusory
- most impostrous
- most rascal
- underhand
- underhanded
• deceitful, pretending
- hypocritical
• deceitful, sly
- scheming
• deceitful, tricky
- evasive
• deceitful, untrustworthy
- shifty
• deceptive
- Imposturous
- bummest
- delusive
- duplicitous
- fakest
- illusory
- more deluding
- more imposturous
- most deluding
- most imposturous
- seeming
• deceptive, confusing
- misleading
• deceptive, false
- fraudulent
• deep
- more plotting
- most plotting
• deeply perceptive
- acute
• degenerate
- de based
- de cadent
- de generate
- de generated
- de-based
- de-cadent
- de-generate
- de-generated
- flatitious
- more degenerated
- more flatitious
- more overripe
- more vitiated
- more worsen
- most degenerated
- most flatitious
- most overripe
- most vitiated
- over ripe
- over-ripe
- overripe
- retro grade
• delusive
- most apparent
- visionary
• depraved
- dirty minded
- dirty-minded
- dirtyminded
- flagitous
- more dirty minded
- more dirty-minded
- more dirtyminded
- more flagitous
- more vitiate
- most dirty minded
- most dirty-minded
- most dirtyminded
- most flagitous
- most vitiate
- un-natural
• depressed
- melancholic
• depressed, unhappy
- downcast
• designing
- de signing
- de-signing
- more conniving
- more conspiring
- most conniving
- most conspiring
- observant
• devious
- de touring
- de-touring
- detouring
- digressory
- ex cursive
- ex-cursive
- faking one out
- faking out
- more confounding
- more detouring
- more digressing
- more digressory
- more obliquitous
- most confounding
- most detouring
- most digressing
- most digressory
- most obliquitous
- not straightforward
- obliquitous
- playing games
- playing politics
- re moved
- re-mote
• dirty
- below belt
- in decent
- in-decent
- more cheating
- off color
- offcolor
- scurvier
- scurviest
- scurvy
- un chaste
- un chaster
- un chastest
- un clean
- un cleaner
- un cleanest
- un cleanliest
- un cleanly
- un-chaste
- un-chaster
- un-chastest
- un-cleaner
- un-cleanest
- un-cleanlier
- un-cleanliest
- un-cleanly
• dishonest
- corrupt
- deceptive
- dis honest
- dis-honest
- lying
- more backbiting
- more bluffing
- more double crossing
- more double-crossing
- more doublecrossing
- more hoodwinking
- more swindling
- more two timing
- more two-timing
- more twotiming
- most backbiting
- most bluffing
- most cheating
- most double crossing
- most double-crossing
- most doublecrossing
- most hoodwinking
- most swindling
- most two timing
- most two-timing
- most twotiming
- untrue
• dishonest, crafty
- devious
• dishonest, disloyal
- treacherous
• dishonest, immoral
- unethical
• dishonest, insincere
- deceitful
• disingenuous
- Uncandid
- dis ingenuous
- dis-ingenuous
- more uncandid
- most uncandid
- un candid
- un frank
- un franker
- un frankest
- un-candid
- un-frank
- un-franker
- un-frankest
- unfrank
- unfranker
- unfrankest
• double-dealing
- Double dealing
- double-dealing
- doubledealing
- left handed
- lefthanded
• doubtful, suspicious
- fishy
• downcast
- bummed out
- cast down
- chapfallen
- dis appointed
- dis heartened
- dis mayed
- dis-appointed
- dis-heartened
- dis-mayed
- down dumps
- down in dumps
- down in the dumps
- down the dumps
- down-in-the-mouth
- low spirited
- lowspirited
- mopier
- mopiest
- more brooding
- more chapfallen
- more daunted
- more disheartened
- more dismayed
- more down in the mouth
- more down-in-the-mouth
- more dragged
- most brooding
- most disheartened
- most dismayed
- most down-in-the-mouth
- most dragged
- most sunk
- shot down
- singing blues
- singing the blues
• dreadful
- more shuddersome
- most shuddersome
- shuddersome
• dubious
- Trustless
- far fetched
- fly by night
- in decisive
- in-decisive
- more trustless
- more unconvinced
- most trustless
- most unassured
- most unconvinced
- touch and go
- touch go
- un assured
- un clear
- un clearest
- un convinced
- un decided
- un dependable
- un likelier
- un likeliest
- un likely
- un sure
- un trustier
- un trustiest
- un-assured
- un-clear
- un-clearest
- un-decided
- un-dependable
- un-likelier
- un-likely
- un-sure
- un-trustier
- un-trustiest
- un-trusty
- unassured
- unconvinced
- untrustiest
- untrusty
• elusive
- Elusory
- difficult catch
- difficult to catch
- in comprehensible
- in definable
- in substantial
- in tangible
- in-definable
- in-substantial
- in-tangible
- more elusory
- more phantom
- more stonewalling
- more unspecific
- most elusory
- most phantom
- most stonewalling
- most unspecific
- un specific
- un-specific
- unspecific
• empty, hollowed out
- hollow
• erroneous
- all off
- all wet
- flawed
- mis-guided
- way off
- wrong number
• evasive
- casuistic
- casuistical
- more casuistic
- more casuistical
- more dissembling
- more equivocating
- more prevaricating
- more shuffling
- more sophistical
- most casuistic
- most casuistical
- most dissembling
- most equivocating
- most prevaricating
- most shuffling
- most sophistical
- sophistical
- un clearer
- un-clearer
• evasive, mysterious
- elusive
• evasively tricky
- dodgy
• evil
- heinous
- maleficent
- more evil
- more maleficent
- most maleficent
- no good
- un propitious
• evil, degenerate
- immoral
• evil, illegal
- wrongful
• fake, simulated
- counterfeit
• false
- Forsworn
- Misrepresentative
- contrary fact
- contrary to fact
- cooked-up
- cookedup
- counter factual
- counter-factual
- dis loyal
- dis-loyal
- falsehearted
- madeup
- makebelieve
- mis representative
- mis-representative
- more apostate
- more concocted
- more cooked up
- more cooked-up
- more cookedup
- more forsworn
- more misrepresentative
- more mythomaniac
- more rascally
- more scoundrelly
- most apostate
- most concocted
- most cooked up
- most cooked-up
- most cookedup
- most fabricated
- most forsworn
- most misrepresentative
- most mythomaniac
- most scoundrelly
- mythomaniac
- off mark
- off the mark
- rascally
- scoundrelly
- so called
- socalled
- un-real
• faulty
- in complete
- in-complete
- in-sufficient
- malfunctioning
- more blemished
- more malfunctioning
- more marred
- more unretentive
- most blemished
- most botched
- most imprecise
- most lemon
- most malfunctioning
- most marred
- most unretentive
- out order
- un-fit
- un-retentive
- unretentive
• fictitious
- figmental
- hyped up
- in vented
- in-vented
- more created
- more figmental
- more trumped up
- most created
- most figmental
- most trumped up
- most trumped-up
- most trumpedup
- trumped-up
- trumpedup
• fine
- Fine-spun
- fine spun
- hairline
- more fine spun
- more fine-spun
- more hairline
- more hairsplitting
- more unpolluted
- most fine spun
- most fine-spun
- most hairline
- most hairsplitting
- re fined
- un adulterated
- un polluted
- un-adulterated
- un-polluted
- unpolluted
• fishy
- Doubtable
- funnier
- more doubtable
- most doubtable
- un-likeliest
• foul
- de testable
- de-testable
- foul mouthed
- foul-mouthed
- in equitable
- in-equitable
- more caitiff
- more foul mouthed
- more foul-mouthed
- more pigpen
- more sullied
- most caitiff
- most foul mouthed
- most foul-mouthed
- most pigpen
- most sullied
- pro fane
- pro-fane
- yecchiest
- yecchy
• fraudulent
- more bamboozling
- most bamboozling
• furtive
- conspiratorial
- more conspiratorial
- more skulking
- more slinking
- more sub rosa
- more sub-rosa
- more subrosa
- most conspiratorial
- most skulking
- most slinking
- most sub rosa
- most sub-rosa
- most subrosa
- sub-rosa
- subrosa
• gross
- in elegant
- in gutter
- in sensitive
- in the gutter
- in-elegant
- in-sensitive
- more barnyard
- more swinish
- more undiscriminating
- most swinish
- most undiscriminating
- swinish
- un couth
- un cultured
- un discriminating
- un feeling
- un refined
- un seemlier
- un seemliest
- un seemly
- un sophisticated
- un-couth
- un-cultured
- un-discriminating
- un-refined
- un-seemlier
- un-seemliest
• harmful
- dis advantageous
- dis-advantageous
- malefic
- more corroding
- more crippling
- more harassing
- more malefic
- more undermining
- most corroding
- most crippling
- most harassing
- most malefic
- most undermining
- un-wholesome
- under mining
- under-mining
• hazardous, troubling
- dangerous
• hidden, unrevealed
- secret
• hollow
- Cupped
- Infundibular
- alveolate
- carved out
- clangorous
- cup shaped
- cup-shaped
- cupshaped
- deep set
- deep-set
- deepset
- dimpled
- in curved
- in dented
- in-curved
- in-dented
- incurved
- more alveolate
- more clangorous
- more cup shaped
- more cup-shaped
- more cupped
- more deep set
- more deep-set
- more deepset
- more dimpled
- more echoing
- more excavated
- more incurved
- more infundibular
- more muted
- more pitted
- more reverberant
- more rumbling
- more sounding
- more striated
- more toneless
- more troughlike
- more vibrating
- most cup-shaped
- most cupped
- most cupshaped
- most deep set
- most deep-set
- most deepset
- most dimpled
- most echoing
- most excavated
- most incurved
- most infundibular
- most muted
- most pitted
- most reverberant
- most rumbling
- most sounding
- most striated
- most toneless
- most troughlike
- most vibrating
- re sounding
- re-sounding
- reverberant
- toneless
- troughlike
- un availing
- un filled
- un-availing
- un-filled
• horrible, frightening
- dreadful
• humble
- Low-born
- in glorious
- in significant
- in-glorious
- lowranking
- more low born
- more low ranking
- more low-born
- more lowborn
- more lowranking
- more proletarian
- most low ranking
- most low-born
- most low-ranking
- most lowborn
- most lowranking
- most proletarian
- un assuming
- un distinguished
- un-distinguished
- un-important
- un-pretentious
- under privileged
- under-privileged
• hypocritical
- feigning
- hypo critical
- hypo-critical
- jivey
- jivier
- jiviest
- moralistic
- more caviling
- more feigning
- more moralistic
- more smooth spoken
- more smooth-spoken
- more smoothspoken
- most caviling
- most feigning
- most moralistic
- most smooth spoken
- most smooth-spoken
- most smoothspoken
- self righteous
- selfrighteous
- smooth spoken
- smooth tongued
- smooth-spoken
- smoothspoken
- smoothtongued
• ill
- dis respectful
- dis-respectful
- fore boding
- fore-boding
- ill mannered
- illmannered
- in auspicious
- in-auspicious
- more foreboding
- more nocent
- more unpromising
- most foreboding
- most nocent
- most unpromising
- nocent
- un friendlier
- un friendliest
- un gracious
- un kind
- un kinder
- un kindest
- un luckier
- un luckiest
- un lucky
- un promising
- un-friendlier
- un-friendliest
- un-friendly
- un-gracious
- un-kind
- un-kinder
- un-kindest
- un-luckier
- un-lucky
- un-promising
- unpromising
• illusory
- Semblant
- blue sky
- floater
- more semblant
- most barmecidal
- most semblant
• immoral
- Saturnalian
- more saturnalian
- most saturnalian
- of easy virtue
- unscrupulous
- x rated
- xrated
• immoral, criminal
- sinful
• immoral, immoderate
- unconscionable
• improper
- Unequitable
- at odds
- ill timed
- illadvised
- in advisable
- in applicable
- in apposite
- in appropriate
- in apter
- in congruous
- in decorous
- in expedient
- in harmonious
- in opportune
- in-admissible
- in-advisable
- in-applicable
- in-apposite
- in-appropriate
- in-apter
- in-congruous
- in-decorous
- in-expedient
- in-felicitous
- in-harmonious
- in-opportune
- inapposite
- more inapposite
- more off base
- more off-base
- more offbase
- more out of season
- more out-of-place
- more unequitable
- more unfitting
- more unrighteous
- more unrightful
- most inapposite
- most off base
- most off-base
- most out of place
- most out of season
- most out-of-place
- most out-of-season
- most unequitable
- most unfitting
- most unrighteous
- off-base
- offbase
- out of place
- out of season
- out-of-place
- un apter
- un aptest
- un becoming
- un befitting
- un conventional
- un due
- un duest
- un equitable
- un fitting
- un godlier
- un godliest
- un godly
- un rightful
- un seasonable
- un suitable
- un suited
- un timelier
- un timeliest
- un timely
- un-apter
- un-becoming
- un-befitting
- un-comely
- un-conventional
- un-due
- un-duer
- un-duest
- un-equitable
- un-fitting
- un-godlier
- un-godliest
- un-godly
- un-righteous
- un-rightful
- un-seasonable
- un-suitable
- un-suited
- un-timelier
- un-timeliest
- un-timely
- un-warranted
- uncalledfor
- unfitting
- unrighteous
- unrightful
• inaccurate
- doesn't wash
- doesnt wash
- in accurate
- in error
- more way off
- more way-off
- more wayoff
- most way off
- most way-off
- most wayoff
• incorrect
- in correct
- wide mark
- wide the mark
• indirect
- roundabout
• inferior
- good for nothing
- hackest
- in different
- in-different
- junkest
- low grade
- low-rent
- lowgrade
- lowrent
- more good for nothing
- more low-rent
- more lowrent
- most good for nothing
- most good-for-nothing
- most low rent
- most low-rent
- most lowrent
- second class
- secondclass
- twobit
• ingenious
- Deviceful
- more deviceful
- more innovational
- most deviceful
- most innovational
- re sourceful
• injurious, hurtful
- harmful
• insidious
- like a snake grass
- like a snake in grass
- like a snake in the grass
- like a snake the grass
- like snake grass
- like snake in grass
- like snake in the grass
- like snake the grass
- more ensnaring
- most ensnaring
• insincere
- dis simulating
- dis-simulating
- disingenuous
- in sincere
- in sincerer
- in sincerest
- in-sincere
- in-sincerer
- in-sincerest
- insincere
- more dissimulating
- more puton
- most dissimulating
- most put-on
• intelligent
- smart
• invalid
- ill-founded
- illfounded
- in operative
- in valid
- in-operative
- in-valid
- more ill founded
- more ill-founded
- more illfounded
- more reasonless
- most ill founded
- most ill-founded
- most reasonless
- not binding
- not working
- null void
- reasonless
- un reasonable
- un reasoned
- un scientific
- un-reasonable
- un-reasoned
- un-scientific
• low
- be neath
- be-neath
- bottom most
- bottom-most
- bottommost
- crumbier
- crumbiest
- crumby
- cut rate
- cut-rate
- cutrate
- down and out
- down in mouth
- down mouth
- down out
- down the mouth
- ground level
- ground-level
- ill bred
- illbred
- in disposed
- in expensive
- in pits
- in the pits
- in-disposed
- in-expensive
- low down
- low set
- low-down
- low-lying
- low-set
- lowborn
- lowdown
- lowhanging
- lowset
- marked down
- more below
- more bottommost
- more crouched
- more cut
- more cut rate
- more cut-rate
- more ground-level
- more groundlevel
- more ill bred
- more ill-bred
- more illbred
- more low down
- more low hanging
- more low lying
- more low set
- more low-down
- more low-hanging
- more low-lying
- more low-set
- more lowdown
- more lowhanging
- more lowlying
- more lowset
- more nether
- more rock bottom
- more rock-bottom
- more rockbottom
- more slashed
- more subsided
- more uncostly
- more undignified
- more unelevated
- most below
- most beneath
- most crouched
- most cut
- most cut rate
- most cutrate
- most ground level
- most ground-level
- most groundlevel
- most ill bred
- most ill-bred
- most illbred
- most low hanging
- most low lying
- most low set
- most lowdown
- most lowhanging
- most lowlying
- most lowset
- most nether
- most rock bottom
- most rock-bottom
- most rockbottom
- most slashed
- most subsided
- most uncostly
- most under
- most undignified
- most unelevated
- not high
- pro found
- pro founder
- pro-found
- pro-founder
- rock-bottom
- squattier
- squattiest
- sub sided
- un costly
- un dignified
- un elevated
- un washed
- un-costly
- un-dignified
- un-elevated
- un-washed
- uncostly
- undignified
- unelevated
• lying
- committing perjury
- fibbing
- in venting
- in-venting
- mis representing
- mis-representing
- mis-stating
- more falsifying
- more fibbing
- more inventing
- more misrepresenting
- more misstating
- most falsifying
- most fibbing
- most inventing
- most misrepresenting
- most misstating
• mean
- down at heel
- down-at-heel
- in effectual
- in-effectual
- more down at heel
- more down-at-heel
- most down-at-heel
• melancholic
- cast-down
- castdown
- de solate
- de stroyed
- de-solate
- de-stroyed
- heavy hearted
- in blue funk
- in dumps
- in the toilet
- in toilet
- more cast down
- more cast-down
- more castdown
- more hurting
- more ripped
- most at
- most cast down
- most cast-down
- most castdown
- most ripped
- on a downer
- on downer
- torn up
• mendacious
- mendacious
- more paltering
- most paltering
• menial
- de grading
- de meaning
- de-grading
- de-meaning
- more demeaning
- most sycophantic
- sycophantic
- un skilled
- un-skilled
• misleading
- be wildering
- be-wildering
- demagogic
- mis leading
- mis-leading
- more bewildering
- more demagogic
- more distracting
- most bewildering
- most demagogic
- most distracting
- specious
• mistaken
- barking up wrong tree
- barking wrong tree
- confused with
- mis construed
- mis informed
- mis interpreting
- mis judging
- mis taken
- mis understanding
- mis-construed
- mis-informed
- mis-judging
- mis-understanding
- more duped
- more misconstrued
- more misinformed
- more misinterpreting
- more misjudging
- more misunderstanding
- more tricked
- most misconstrued
- most misinformed
- most misinterpreting
- most misjudging
- most misunderstanding
- most tricked
- off track
- un advised
- un-advised
- under wrong impression
- wide of mark
- wrongly identified
• nice, quiet, delicate
- subtle
• not based on fact
- unfounded
• not dependable, unfaithful
- untrustworthy
• not fair
- unjust
• not suitable
- improper
• not trustworthy, not true
- unreliable
• not well; flimsy
- unsound
• not white
- colored
• not working; incorrect
- faulty
• noun
- Equivocating
- adroit
- ambiguous
- arch
- assuming
- atrocious
- blamable
- blameworthy
- calculating
- censurable
- civil
- civilized
- close-mouthed
- considerate
- cosmopolitan
- courteous
- criminal
- critical
- culpable
- cultivated
- cultured
- cutthroat
- cynical
- diplomatic
- dissembling
- dissimulating
- equivocal
- errant
- erring
- evil-minded
- fabricated
- faithless
- fallen
- flattering
- guileful
- imitation
- imitative
- incorrect
- indecent
- indecorous
- inequitable
- inhibited
- intriguing
- knavish
- knowing
- laconic
- man-made
- manipulative
- manufactured
- mean
- mistrustful
- naughty
- objectionable
- offensive
- perfidious
- polished
- polite
- politic
- posing
- pretending
- profligate
- quiet
- refined
- reprehensible
- reserved
- restrained
- skeptical
- smooth
- sophisticated
- suppositious
- supposititious
- suspicious
- synthetic
- taciturn
- tactful
- tight-lipped
- traitorous
- unauthentic
- unbecoming
- unbelievable
- undependable
- unfair
- unfaithful
- unreal
- unseemly
- unworthy
- wary
- worldly
- worldly-wise
• offensive
- dis courteous
- dis-courteous
- in solent
- in-solent
- more offending
- most offending
- re prehensible
- re-prehensible
- un civil
- un mannerly
- un-civil
- un-mannerly
• painful, distressing
- bitter
• perjured
- bearing false witness
- commiting perjury
- swearing falsely
• philistine
- Incult
- brutish
- in cult
- in culter
- in-culter
- in-cultest
- inculter
- incultest
- lowbred
- lowdown dirty
- more brutish
- more lowbred
- more roughneck
- most brutish
- most lowbred
- most roughneck
- most vulgarian
- un cultivated
- un polished
- un-cultivated
• plotting, crafty
- designing
• poisonous
- toxicant
• poor quality
- bad
• pretentious
- Euphuistic
- high flown
- high sounding
- highfaluting
- highflown
- highsounding
- la di da
- more euphuistic
- more highfaluting
- more overambitious
- more too too
- more too-too
- more tootoo
- most euphuistic
- most highfaluting
- most too too
- most tootoo
- over ambitious
- over blown
- over-ambitious
- over-blown
- overambitious
- too too
- too-too
- tootoo
• recreant
- mean spirited
- meanspirited
- more cowering
- more defecting
- more pigeonhearted
- most cowering
- most defecting
- most pigeonhearted
- pigeonhearted
- un manlier
- un manliest
- un manly
- un-manliest
- un-manly
• reprobate
- in corrigible
- in-corrigible
- re probate
- re-probate
• risky
- end angered
- fraught with danger
- going for broke
- hanging by thread
- not a prayer
- not prayer
- off deep end
- on slippery ground
- on spot
- on the spot
- on thin ice
- out a limb
- out limb
- out on limb
- playing with fire
- wideopen
• rotten
- bad smelling
- bad-smelling
- badsmelling
- de composed
- de composing
- de-composed
- de-composing
- dis appointing
- dis gusting
- dis integrated
- dis integrating
- dis-appointing
- dis-gusting
- dis-integrated
- dis-integrating
- feculent
- more bad smelling
- more bad-smelling
- more badsmelling
- more bruised
- more corroded
- more crumbled
- more decomposing
- more dirtied
- more disintegrating
- more fecal
- more festering
- more moldering
- more perished
- more purulent
- more pustular
- more putrified
- more smelling
- most bad smelling
- most bad-smelling
- most badsmelling
- most bruised
- most contaminated
- most corroded
- most crumbled
- most decomposed
- most dirtied
- most disintegrated
- most disintegrating
- most fecal
- most feculent
- most festering
- most moldering
- most perished
- most pustular
- most putrified
- most smelling
- punker
- purulent
- putrified
• roundabout
- circumlocutory
- dis cursive
- dis-cursive
- more circumlocutory
- most circumlocutory
- taking long way
- taking the long way
• sanctimonious
- goody goody
- holier than thou
- pre achier
- pre achiest
- pre-achier
- pre-achiest
- pre-achy
- self satisfied
- selfsatisfied
• sarcastic
- scoffing
• scheming, devious
- deep
• scoffing
- dis illusioned
- dis-illusioned
- more chaffing
- more cussed
- more needling
- more snarling
- more taunting
- more twitting
- more weisenheiming
- most cussed
- most twitting
- most weisenheiming
- smart alecky
- smartalecky
- weisenheiming
• secret
- backdoor
- backstairs
- dis simulated
- dis-simulated
- enigmatical
- in ambush
- in side
- more backdoor
- more closet
- more dissimulated
- more unacknowledged
- most backdoor
- most closet
- most dissimulated
- most unacknowledged
- re tired
- sneakest
- un acknowledged
- un disclosed
- un enlightened
- un frequented
- un known
- un published
- un seen
- un-acknowledged
- un-disclosed
- un-enlightened
- un-frequented
- un-intelligible
- un-known
- un-published
- un-seen
- unacknowledged
- under false pretense
- under-ground
• secret, sly
- clandestine
• secretive
- buttoned up
- clammed up
- close mouthed
- in background
- in chambers
- in dark
- in privacy
- in private
- in the background
- more backstairs
- more unforthcoming
- more zipped
- most backstairs
- most unforthcoming
- most zipped
- re served
- re-served
- tight lipped
- un forthcoming
- un-forthcoming
- unforthcoming
- with drawn
- with-drawn
• self-righteous
- sanctimonious
• shady
- more unrespectable
- most unrespectable
- un respectable
- un-respectable
• sham
- more plaster
- more pretend
- most plaster
- most pretend
- pre tend
• shameless
- reprobate
• sharp
- Acuminous
- Needle-pointed
- Unblunted
- acuate
- apical
- brierier
- brieriest
- briery
- clear cut
- clearcut
- de finite
- de-finite
- double edged
- double-edged
- doubleedged
- firstclass
- flyest
- ground fine
- having smarts
- horned
- in style
- keen edged
- keen-edged
- keenedged
- knife edged
- knife-edged
- knifeedged
- more acuminous
- more apical
- more double edged
- more double-edged
- more doubleedged
- more drilling
- more edged
- more honed
- more horned
- more keen edged
- more keen-edged
- more keenedged
- more knife edged
- more knife-edged
- more knifeedged
- more needle pointed
- more needle-pointed
- more needlelike
- more paralyzing
- more penetrative
- more razor sharp
- more razor-sharp
- more razorsharp
- more sharp edged
- more sharp-edged
- more sharpened
- more splintery
- more strong smelling
- more strong-smelling
- more suffocating
- more tapered
- more tined
- more tipped
- more unblunted
- more vinegary
- more whetted
- most acuate
- most acuminous
- most apical
- most double edged
- most double-edged
- most doubleedged
- most drilling
- most edged
- most honed
- most horned
- most keen edged
- most keen-edged
- most keenedged
- most knife edged
- most knifeedged
- most needle-pointed
- most needlelike
- most needlepointed
- most pronged
- most razor sharp
- most razor-sharp
- most sharp edged
- most sharp-edged
- most sharpedged
- most sharpened
- most shooting
- most splintery
- most strong smelling
- most strong-smelling
- most suffocating
- most tapered
- most tined
- most tipped
- most unblunted
- most vinegary
- most whetted
- needle pointed
- needlelike
- needlepointed
- nobody fool
- nobodys fool
- penetrative
- pronged
- quick on the trigger
- quick on the uptake
- quick on trigger
- quick on uptake
- quick the trigger
- quick the uptake
- quick trigger
- quick uptake
- razor-sharp
- sharp edged
- smart as a tack
- smart as tack
- spikier
- spikiest
- spiky
- strong smelling
- strong-smelling
- tined
- un blunted
- un-blunted
- un-ceremonious
- vinegary
• shifty
- Unhonest
- more contriving
- more dodging
- more prevaricative
- more prevaricatory
- more unhonest
- most contriving
- most dodging
- most prevaricative
- most prevaricatory
- most unhonest
- prevaricative
- prevaricatory
- un honest
- un-honest
• shrewd
- in know
- in the know
- more argute
- most argute
- on inside
- on the inside
- on top of
- shark
- sharkest
- up on
• sinful
- de meritorious
- de-meritorious
- demeritorious
- morally wrong
- more demeritorious
- more unregenerate
- most demeritorious
- most unregenerate
- un holier
- un holiest
- un holy
- un regenerate
- un righteous
- un-holier
- un-holiest
- un-holy
- un-regenerate
- unregenerate
• sinful, immoral
- evil
• slick
- dextrous
- more dextrous
• slippery
- un predictable
- un steadier
- un steadiest
- un steady
- un-predictable
- un-steadier
- un-steadiest
• sly
- impish
- sneaking
• smart
- eggheaded
- long haired
- long-haired
- more eggheaded
- more genius
- more long-haired
- more longhaired
- most eggheaded
- most long haired
- most longhaired
- skuller
- skullest
- whizer
- whizest
• snaky
- more entwined
- more vipery
- most entwined
- most vipery
- vipery
• sneaky, secret
- surreptitious
• sneaky, secretive
- furtive
• sneaky, tricky
- insidious
• specious
- apparently right
• subtle
- de tailed
- de-tailed
- ex acting
- ex-acting
- in conspicuous
- in distinct
- in sinuated
- in-conspicuous
- in-distinct
- more attenuate
- more attenuated
- more insinuated
- more understated
- most attenuate
- most attenuated
- most insinuated
- under stated
- under-stated
• surreptitious
- hole and corner
- hole-and-corner
- more hole and corner
- more hole-and-corner
- most hole and corner
- most hole-and-corner
- on sly
- on the sly
- un authorized
- un-authorized
• toxicant
- Miasmatic
- more infective
- more miasmatic
- more septic
- more toxiferous
- most infective
- most septic
- most toxiferous
- septic
- toxiferous
• treacherous
- false hearted
- more betraying
- more unloyal
- most unloyal
- snake grass
- snake in grass
- snake the grass
- un loyal
- un-loyal
- unloyal
• tricky
- Witted
- cagey
- more witted
- most witted
- wry
• truthful, candid
- biased
- false
- irresponsible
- partial
- prejudiced
- unreasonable
- unsuitable
- untruthful
• uncertain, unreliable
- slippery
• uncommunicative
- secretive
• unconscionable
- amoral
- in-ordinate
- more amoral
- most amoral
- un civilized
- un conscionable
- un-civilized
- un-conscionable
• underhand
- dirty dealing
- dirty-dealing
- dirtydealing
- more dirty dealing
- more dirty-dealing
- more dirtydealing
- most dirty dealing
- most dirty-dealing
- most dirtydealing
- under hand
- under-hand
• underhanded
- shorthanded
- under handed
- under-handed
• underhanded, dishonest
- sneaky
• unethical
- more flimflam
- most flimflam
- scamer
- scamest
- un ethical
- un professional
- un-ethical
- un-professional
• unfair
- dis creditable
- dis criminatory
- dis-creditable
- dis-criminatory
- in excusable
- in-excusable
- more unsporting
- most unrightful
- most unsporting
- un fair
- un fairer
- un fairest
- un justifiable
- un sporting
- un-fair
- un-fairer
- un-fairest
- un-justifiable
- un-sporting
- unsporting
• unfounded
- Foundationless
- more unproven
- most unproven
- un founded
- un justified
- un proven
- un substantiated
- un-founded
- un-justified
- un-proven
- un-substantiated
- unproven
- without basis
- without foundation
• unjust
- more undeserved
- more unmerited
- most undeserved
- most unmerited
- un deserved
- un forgivable
- un just
- un juster
- un justest
- un merited
- un-deserved
- un-just
- un-juster
- un-justest
- un-merited
- undeserved
- unmerited
• unprincipled
- mercentary
- more mercentary
- more stop-at-nothing
- most stop at nothing
- un principled
- un-principled
• unreliable
- un convincing
- un reliable
- un-convincing
- un-reliable
• unsafe
- ex plosive
- ex-plosive
- on a limb
- on limb
- un safe
- un safer
- un safest
- un-safe
- un-safer
- un-safest
• unscrupulous
- exploitative
- more exploitative
- more unconscientious
- most exploitative
- most unconscientious
- self seeking
- selfseeking
- un conscientious
- un scrupulous
- un-conscientious
- un-scrupulous
- unconscientious
• unsound
- de ranged
- de-ranged
- in firm
- in firmer
- in firmest
- in poor health
- in sane
- in saner
- in sanest
- in-firmer
- in-firmest
- in-sane
- in-saner
- more unbacked
- most unbacked
- un backed
- un hinged
- un sound
- un sounder
- un substantial
- un-backed
- un-balanced
- un-hinged
- un-sound
- un-sounder
- un-soundest
- un-substantial
- unbacked
• untrue
- out line
- out of line
- un true
- un truer
- un truest
- un-true
- un-truer
- un-truest
• untrue, made-up
- fictitious
• untrustworthy
- fair-weather
- fairweather
- finker
- finkest
- more fair weather
- more fair-weather
- more fairweather
- more unassured
- most fair weather
- most fair-weather
- most fairweather
- un trustworthy
- un trusty
- un-trustworthy
- untrustier
• untruthful
- un-truthful
• venal
- buyable
- more buyable
- most buyable
• vulgar, low
- base
• wily
- crazy like a fox
• winding
- snaky
• worthless; unfounded
- invalid
• wrong
- dis proportionate
- dis-proportionate
- fluffed
- in verse
- in-verse
- mis calculated
- mis figured
- mis handled
- mis placed
- mis-figured
- mis-handled
- more fluffed
- more miscalculated
- more misfigured
- more obverse
- more off target
- more off-target
- more offtarget
- more unfitted
- more ungrounded
- most fluffed
- most goofed
- most miscalculated
- most misfigured
- most obverse
- most off target
- most offtarget
- most ungrounded
- not precise
- off balance
- off-target
- offtarget
- on the wrong track
- on wrong track
- out commission
- un desirable
- un fitted
- un grounded
- un-desirable
- un-fitted
- un-grounded
- unfitted
- ungrounded
• wrong, incorrect
- erroneous
- mistaken
adv. & a.
• noun
- blackguardly
n.
• noun
- hireling
v.
• noun
- jive
- put on
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Usage examples for Honest

The talk with Jane Oglander had shaken him almost as much-he was quite honest about the matter-as it had shaken her.

"Jane Oglander"

Marie Belloc Lowndes

I ax ye, Jamie, bekase ye're an honest maan.

"My Lady of the Chimney Corner"

Alexander Irvine

We didn't think-or care-whether the things we did were decent, or honest, or anything of that sort.

"The Furnace"

Rose Macaulay

Famous quotes with Honest

The honest truth is that if this government were to propose the massacre of the first-born, it would still have no difficulty in getting it through the Commons.

Diane Abbott
America fell in love with the innocence of a kid who just was honest, saying, I did the best I could, and I had no formal training.

Paula Abdul
People are still willing to do an honest day's work. The trouble is they want a week's pay for it.

Joey Adams
All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.

John Quincy Adams
When we are honest - that's my saying - if we are honest then we will reveal ourselves. But we do not have to make an effort to be individualistic, different from others.

Josef Albers

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