Honesty and Dishonesty

Honesty :  free of deceit, truthful and sincere
Synonyms: allegiance, fidelity, probity, scrupulousness, veracity,

  • Max’s feelings of allegiance will always rest with England, because he was born there.
  • While fidelity to a religious creed is admirable, some believers go too far in their faithfulness and sometimes become dangerous fanatics.
  • Jared displayed great probity by returning the necklace he found on the street.
  • Marsha’s scrupulousness will never allow her to cheat in an exam.
  • The judge would not admit the evidence in the trial because he doubted the veracity of the bloodstains.

Dishonesty: untruthfulness; falsehood
Synonyms: chicanery, deceit, deception, perfidy, subterfuge, skulduggery, treachery

  • It is high time we expose the business for its financial chicanery and reveal how they have wasted our hard earned money.
  • The saint urged his followers to live lives free of deception and trickery of any kind.
  • When the soldier’s perfidy against the government was brought to light, people all over the country called for the man to be executed.
  • Magazines partake in the subterfuge by photo shopping models to look vastly thinner.
  • The company’s healthy financial statements were an illusion , the result of years of accounting skulduggery.
  • On account of treachery and deceitful conduct, his wife served him with divorce papers.