All dishonesty synonyms

noun dishonesty

• infidelity — marital disloyalty; adultery.
• falsehood — a false statement; lie. Synonyms: fabrication, prevarication, falsification, canard, invention, fiction, story.
• fraud — deceit, trickery, sharp practice, or breach of confidence, perpetrated for profit or to gain some unfair or dishonest advantage.
• trickery — the use or practice of tricks or stratagems to deceive; artifice; deception.
• duplicity — deceitfulness in speech or conduct, as by speaking or acting in two different ways to different people concerning the same matter; double-dealing. Synonyms: deceit, deception, dissimulation, fraud, guile, hypocrisy, trickery. Antonyms: candidness, directness, honesty, straightforwardness.
• chicanery — Chicanery is using cleverness to cheat people.
• deceit — Deceit is behaviour that is deliberately intended to make people believe something which is not true.
• mendacity — the quality of being mendacious; untruthfulness; tendency to lie.
• treachery — violation of faith; betrayal of trust; treason.
• corruption — Corruption is dishonesty and illegal behaviour by people in positions of authority or power.
• graft — the acquisition of money, gain, or advantage by dishonest, unfair, or illegal means, especially through the abuse of one's position or influence in politics, business, etc.
• criminality — the state or quality of being criminal
• falsity — the quality or condition of being false; incorrectness; untruthfulness; treachery.
• stealing — Informal. an act of stealing; theft.
• artifice — Artifice is the clever use of tricks and devices.
• racket — a light bat having a netting of catgut or nylon stretched in a more or less oval frame and used for striking the ball in tennis, the shuttlecock in badminton, etc.
• double-dealing — duplicity; treachery; deception.
• cheating — an instance of rule-breaking
• trickiness — given to or characterized by deceitful tricks; crafty; wily.
• bunk — A bunk is a bed that is fixed to a wall, especially in a ship or caravan.
• cunning — Someone who is cunning has the ability to achieve things in a clever way, often by deceiving other people.
• infamy — extremely bad reputation, public reproach, or strong condemnation as the result of a shameful, criminal, or outrageous act: a time that will live in infamy.
• flimflam — a trick or deception, especially a swindle or confidence game involving skillful persuasion or clever manipulation of the victim.
• craft — You can refer to a boat, a spacecraft, or an aircraft as a craft.
• slyness — cunning or wily: sly as a fox.
• swindle — to cheat (a person, business, etc.) out of money or other assets.
• perfidy — deliberate breach of faith or trust; faithlessness; treachery: perfidy that goes unpunished.
• guile — insidious cunning in attaining a goal; crafty or artful deception; duplicity.
• perfidiousness — deliberately faithless; treacherous; deceitful: a perfidious lover.
• hocus-pocus — a meaningless chant or expression used in conjuring or incantation.
• crooked — If you describe something as crooked, especially something that is usually straight, you mean that it is bent or twisted.
• rascality — rascally or knavish character or conduct.
• chicane — a bridge or whist hand without trumps
• unscrupulousness — not scrupulous; unrestrained by scruples; conscienceless; unprincipled.
• insidiousness — intended to entrap or beguile: an insidious plan.
• wiliness — full of, marked by, or proceeding from wiles; crafty; cunning.
• fraudulence — characterized by, involving, or proceeding from fraud, as actions, enterprise, methods, or gains: a fraudulent scheme to evade taxes.
• deceitfulness — given to deceiving: A deceitful person cannot keep friends for long.
• lying — the manner, relative position, or direction in which something lies: the lie of the patio, facing the water. Synonyms: place, location, site.
• untruthful — not truthful; wanting in veracity; diverging from or contrary to the truth; not corresponding with fact or reality.
• crookedness — The state of being crooked.
• hanky-panky — unethical behavior; deceit: When the bank teller bought an expensive car and house, they suspected there might be some hanky-panky going on.
• improbity — lack of honesty or moral scruples.
• sharp practice — You can use sharp practice to refer to an action or a way of behaving, especially in business or professional matters, that you think is clever but dishonest.