Men utter insincere thoughts, they express themselves in echoes and affectations, and they are careless or dishonest in their use of the labours of others, all the time believing in the virtue of sincerity, all the time trying to make others believe honesty to be the best policy.

He is dishonest to the very core.

If his heart be selfish and mean, he will be dishonest as a poor man, as a middle-class man, as a great lord.

But that they are as a class more dishonest than other men is so far from being true, that I much doubt if we should overstrain the matter, if we should affirm that they are the most honest class of men in the community.

All was dishonest from the beginning.

"I never thought of Miss Sniffen's being dishonest with money.

It does not, therefore, discount the supreme crisis of the play, in which a cold, clear-headed business man, who has been deputed by the banks to look into the merchant's affairs, proves to him, point by point, that it would be dishonest of him to flounder any longer in the swamp of insolvency, into which he can only sink deeper and drag more people down with him.

It is strange how in some things honest people can be dishonest without the slightest compunction.