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usually uncountable, plural dishonesties
(uncountable) The characteristic or condition of being dishonest. quotations examples
He added: "We've always had spin, especially from Government. But this is not spin. This is dishonesty and so it's our rail media's urgent responsibility to call it out because non-specialist journalists across the country will report this and gradually these untruths will be accepted.
2022 January 26, Paul Stephen, “Network News: Government's IRP claims condemned as "dishonest"”, in RAIL, number 949, page 7
(countable) An act which is fraudulent or otherwise dishonest. examples
(uncountable, obsolete) Shamefulness, disgrace. quotations
His dishonesty appears in leaving his friend here in necessity and denying him.
c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act III, scene iv]