different between misleading vs dishonest

English

Etymology

mislead +? -ing

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -i?d??

Adjective

misleading (comparative more misleading, superlative most misleading)

1. Deceptive or tending to mislead or create a false impression, even if technically true.

Synonyms

• mistakable
• confusing

Derived terms

• misleadingly
• unmisleading

Translations

Verb

misleading

1. present participle of mislead

Noun

misleading (plural misleadings)

1. A deception that misleads.
   • 2012, Jennifer Mather Saul, Lying, Misleading, and What is Said (page 70)

     According to this tradition, acts of deception that are mere misleadings are morally better than acts of deception that are lies.

Anagrams

• misaligned, misdealing

English

Etymology

From Old French deshoneste, from Latin dehonestus. Synchronically, dis- +? honest.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d??s?n?st/
• (US) IPA^(key): /d??s?n?st/

Adjective

dishonest (comparative more dishonest, superlative most dishonest)

1. Not honest.
2. Interfering with honesty.
3. (obsolete) Dishonourable; shameful; indecent; unchaste; lewd.
   • c. 1560,Thomas North, Archontorologion

     speake 'dishonest word

4. (obsolete) Dishonoured; disgraced; disfigured.

   • Dishonest with lopped arms the youth appears, / Spoiled of his nose and shortened of his ears.

Antonyms

• honest

Related terms

• dishonesty

Translations

Further reading

• dishonest at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• hedonists, stonished