Emily Dickinson Lexicon

DIS-HON'EST, a. [dizon'est. dis and honest.]

1. Void of honesty; destitute of probity, integrity or good faith; faithless; fraudulent; knavish; having or exercising a disposition to deceive, cheat and defraud; applied to persons; as, a dishonest man.
2. Proceeding from fraud or marked by it; fraudulent; knavish; as, a dishonest transaction.
3. Disgraced; dishonored; from the sense in Latin. Dishonest with lopped arms the youth appears. – Dryden.
4. Disgraceful; ignominious; from the Latin sense. Inglorious triumphs, and dishonest scars. – Pope.
5. Unchaste; lewd. – Shak.