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Example sentences for "dishonestly"

Lexicographically close words:
disheveled; dishevelled; dishful; dishing; dishonest; dishonesty; dishonor; dishonorable; dishonorably; dishonored
  1. And every dollar that has been dishonestly obtained, then, should at once be restored to the rightful owner, I suppose--in order to escape the curse?

  2. The Passionate Pilgrim, dishonestly published, and falsely attributed to Shakespeare, by a bookseller named Jaggard.

  3. Moreover, the alleged preponderance does not even prove that the majority of the citizens are in favor of the special privilege dishonestly demanded by the churches.

  4. I am sorry, sir, that I have hind'red you; But I protest he had the chain of me, Though most dishonestly he doth deny it.

  5. He said he was gentle, but unfortunate; Dishonestly afflicted, but yet honest.

  6. It is, I believe, the creed of a Christian that he may deal dishonestly with a Jew, though the Jew who shall deal dishonestly with a Christian is to be hanged.

  7. 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.

  8. He was about to confront the man who had dishonestly sent him to a convict's cell, and a deadly bitterness surged through his veins.

  9. Somehow, he felt that, had he been in his place, it would have required some nerve, even courage, for him to have faced any man he had dishonestly condemned to penitentiary for five years.

  10. I deny the right to a power in the individual which can be dishonestly used to the detriment of his fellows.

  11. For if a man do not manage honestly to live within his own means, he must necessarily be living dishonestly upon the means of somebody else.

  12. It is most probable that he found Benoit's work when he came into England, as he is recorded to have done; and that pursuing a practice too prevalent in the middle ages, he dishonestly suppressed the mention of his real original.

  13. I would a thousand times rather that this country should honestly go to destruction than dishonestly and fraudulently go anywhere.

  14. Well, it is a thousand times better to say that honestly than to say dishonestly that you believe in God.

  15. Ananias," said Peter, "why has Satan taken possession of your heart, that you should try to deceive the Holy Spirit and dishonestly keep back part of the price paid you for this land?

  16. I could not stirre him: He said he was gentle, but vnfortunate; Dishonestly afflicted, but yet honest Arui.

  17. I am sorry Sir that I haue hindred you, But I protest he had the Chaine of me, Though most dishonestly he doth denie it Mar.

  18. For if a man does not manage honestly to live within his own means, he must necessarily be living dishonestly upon the means of somebody else.

  19. He had to find money, and he got it dishonestly at less fatigue than by work.

  20. There are few women or men who have not at some time or other "dishonestly appropriated property," though they did not express it that way when they abstracted sweets well knowing the penalty if caught.

  21. If one partner dishonestly takes possession of partnership assets, how may his partner get legal relief?

  22. I know that people come to lawyers only to get out of scrapes or to get into scrapes dishonestly or unwisely.

  23. I know you, and I know that people don't come to lawyers, as a rule, except to get out of a scrape dishonestly or to get into one unwisely.

  24. Under these circumstances, it is absurd to argue from the mere retention of the letter, that it was retained dishonestly by the elder poet, in breach of a solemn promise.

  25. Notwithstanding the numerous and obvious reasons for thinking he acted dishonestly throughout the whole affair, it is conceivable that he was under the influence of delusion in the earlier passages of the drama.

  26. We are most dishonestly taxed for your debts; the fact was not denied--an ominous silence declared that not a halfpenny of that mighty mortgage would be taken off our shoulders.

  27. But as she dishonestly sets off before poor Franky has had time to withdraw his sturdy body and fat legs out of Peggy's embrace, there is not much doubt as to the answer to her question.

  28. Frequently used to conceal the fact of their being stolen, or otherwise dishonestly obtained.

  29. If the people were not taxed on "watered" stock and bonds, dishonestly issued, the rates charged for transportation would be but little more than one-third the figures of the present tariff.


  30. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dishonestly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.