How to Use dishonest in a Sentence

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• She gave dishonest answers to our questions.
• The public is learning (even more so) how dishonest the Fake News is.
  — Joey Morona, cleveland.com, 17 Aug. 2017
• But history is equally shaped by those who helped fight unsafe or dishonest food practices.
  — Linda Rodriguez McRobbie, Smithsonian, 13 Sep. 2017
• But efforts to chalk up the crisis to mainlander disregard for life are dishonest.
  — Mary Anastasia O’Grady, WSJ, 1 Oct. 2017
• My approach to the book became very personal and immersive, and any other approach would have felt dishonest.
  — Michelle Legro, Longreads, 26 Oct. 2017
• President Trump's argument in his fight against the NFL is weak and dishonest.
  — Jay Willis, GQ, 25 Sep. 2017
• Sanders’s move is disrespectful, dishonest and dangerous.
  — Philip Bump, Washington Post, 20 Oct. 2017
• The allegations against Mr. Kelly are false, and are being made by individuals known to be dishonest.
  — Halle Kiefer, The Cut, 22 Aug. 2017
• This leads people to, at the same time, doubt scientific fact but also attempt to fill in that doubt with untrustworthy, inaccurate and dishonest information.
  — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 15 Oct. 2024
• The same people today are celebrating Donald Trump — not in spite of his being a dishonest, crude serial adulterer but because of it.
  — Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 20 Oct. 2017
• The assumption that Conway is uniquely dishonest strikes me as not only preposterous but irrelevant.
  — The Tylt, AL.com, 5 Oct. 2017
• But a dishonest one will charge $2,000 for the same task.
  — Dallas News, 21 Oct. 2022
• So that’s the first and most dishonest thing about this whole idea.
  — Andrew Marino, The Verge, 13 Aug. 2019
• Even at the time there were some readers who felt that this was dishonest.
  — Adam Kirsch, WSJ, 15 July 2021
• So, the man has a motive to lie and is dishonest, Benkley wrote.
  — Jane Ford-Stewart, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 16 May 2018
• First of all, the media is so dishonest and so corrupt, and the pile-on is so amazing.
  — New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 6 May 2024
• Last year has to be a low, dishonest year and a triumph for no one but the conceited and dumb.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 5 Jan. 2023
• Being dishonest to try to sway the results will not lead you down the best road for your future.
  — Tarot Astrologers, chicagotribune.com, 30 Aug. 2021
• Yes, a certain amount of warming is locked in and to deny that is dishonest.
  — Meg Charlton, Slate Magazine, 2 Jan. 2018
• Yaroslavsky, in turn, said Yebri had been dishonest in his portrayal of her.
  — David Zahniserstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 4 June 2022
• The idea that overall and at our core people are selfish, greedy, and dishonest.
  — Sean Illing, Vox, 16 Sep. 2024
• The important thing here is that the leak was destructive and dishonest and wrong.
  — Charles C. W. Cooke, National Review, 6 May 2022
• What a selfish, dishonest question, one asked as if the answer weren’t staring us straight in the face.
  — Matthew Desmond, The New York Review of Books, 21 Mar. 2023
• The elephant in the O2 Arena felt rude to mention, but dishonest not to: at some point in the past six months, Madonna had gotten the facelift to end all facelifts.
  — Meaghan Garvey, Vulture, 3 Nov. 2023
• Back with the guys, Garrett’s ready to tattle on Luke P., telling the men that — as expected — Luke was dishonest with them.
  — Joyce Chen, refinery29.com, 20 June 2019
• Do people care if they are held out publicly as a fraud or dishonest?
  — Neil Senturia, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Dec. 2020
• But dishonest or not, the attacks on sanctuary cities and MS-13 may have worked.
  — Ed Kilgore, Daily Intelligencer, 2 Nov. 2017
• Cassavetes as Guy is a young man on the make—dishonest, privileged, mean.
  — Rich Cohen, WSJ, 23 May 2018
• So far, their entire portrayal of this White House has failed to persuade anyone but the dishonest and the gullible.
  — Steve Chapman Chicago Tribune, Star Tribune, 6 May 2021
• The crucial element was, again, randomness — the verifier’s choice of snippets would have to be unpredictable, to ensure that a dishonest prover couldn’t hide inconsistencies anywhere.
  — Ben Brubaker, Quanta Magazine, 4 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 11 Dec 2024