dishonest
adj.adj. behaving in a way that is not truthful. You use this to describe someone who lies, cheats, or steals.
adj. characterised by a lack of integrity or a tendency to deceive, lie, or defraud. Typically used to describe personal character or specific actions that violate trust.
It is dishonest to take credit for someone else's work.
The company faced a massive lawsuit after investigators discovered they had provided dishonest information about their profits.
While the politician avoided direct lies, his selective use of statistics was widely criticised as a dishonest attempt to manipulate public opinion before the election.
From Middle English dishoneste (“dishonourable”), from Old French deshoneste, from Latin dehonestus. Equivalent to dis- + honest. Displaced native Old English unsōþfæst.
Typically functions as an attributive or predicative adjective; often followed by the preposition 'about'.