30 examples of dishonestly in sentences

He would not to touch the money that had been gained dishonestly.

Well, sir, you can never make me believe that money obtained dishonestly will stay by a person, or do him any good, and that was demonstrated in the case of our show the next day.

What of it?" "You have dishonestly spent that money given to you in sacred trust.

Nor would I insist upon pledges given dishonestly to support an unjust cause as has happened with England in the case of the secret treaties.

It is common knowledge that Smyrna and Thrace including Adrianople have been dishonestly taken away from Turkey and that mandates have been unscrupulously established in Syria and Mesopotamia and a British nominee has been set up in Hedjaj under the protection of British guns.

There was no way I could earn money, honestly or dishonestly.

dishonestly &c adj.

He was begotten ungraciously, born untimely, lives dishonestly, and dies shamefully.

I 'tis past speech, she lives dishonestly.

He is trying to buy his conscience with the money he makes dishonestly, or, in other words, he is a sinner on week-days and a saint on Sundays.

Infinitely better, that you be honestly poor than dishonestly rich.

Infinitely better, that you be honestly poor than dishonestly rich.

When people say to themselves, 'I must get land, I must get money, by any means; honestly if I can, if not, dishonestly; for have it I must;' what are they doing then but denying that the kingdom, the power, and the glory of this earth belong to the Righteous God, and that He, and not the lying Devil, gives them to whomsoever He will? When people say to themselves (as who does not at moments?)

Above that level, a public library that is not efficient is either dishonestly or incapably organised or managed, or it is serving too large a district and needs duplication, or it is trying to do too much.

There is no comfort in having kept one's word honestly, when one would fain have broken it dishonestly.

But he became sympathetic when I told him, quite dishonestly, that I was in charge of a British field ambulance under the Belgian Government, which had been forced to evacuate Fumes as the enemy had broken through the Belgian lines.

He will speak to her with a certain authority, gently and persuasively; he will convince her that a woman, however wounded her heart may be, has no right to marry the man she does not love; that doing so she acts dishonestly, and is not true to herself; that, likewise, she has no right to throw over the man she loves, because in an access of jealousy he wrote a letter he repents of now from the veriest depths of his heart.

O thou of mighty arms, it hath not pleased me that the Pandavas have gone to the forest dishonestly defeated (at dice) by Duryodhana and others!

"She doth not dishonestly; she seeketh not her own; she doth all things to the commodity of her neighbors."

Though for the deference which they have shown to the vulgar rich, or the dishonestly successful, men afterwards compound with their consciences by privately venting their contempt; yet when they again come face to face with these imposing externals covering worthlessness, they do as before.

So long as men pay homage to those social benefactors who have grown rich honestly, they give a wholesome stimulus to industry; but when they accord a share of their homage to those social malefactors who have grown rich dishonestly, then do they foster corruptionthen do they become accomplices in all these frauds of commerce.

Dishonestly deceived by us and liberated from thirteen years' exile, will not the illustrious hero annihilate us?

Why, in the first place, had Mr. Scarborough behaved so dishonestly?

Yes, there's your Ring again; what have I done Dishonestly in my whole life, name it, That you should put so base a business to me? Arb.

They took from the innocent, I took from the guilty what had already been dishonestly secured.

30 examples of  dishonestly  in sentences