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underhonest en · ADJ

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Etymology

From under- + honest.

Meanings

1. Not entirely honest.
   • […] we think him over-proud And under-honest, c. 1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iii]:
   • Clinical research is never perfect so there is no need to pretend otherwise. Avoid being underhonest. Acknowledge the little errors. 1998, Warren S. Browner, chapter 4, in Publishing and Presenting Clinical Research, Baltimore: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, page 39:

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