Dictionary

unhonestly en · ADV

Etymology

From Middle English unhonestly (“disgracefully”); equivalent to un- + honestly.

Meanings

1. (obsolete) Synonym of dishonestly.
   • Vnhoneſtly, oneerbaerlijck, oftefameusſelijck. 1675 [1647], Henry Hexham, edited by Daniel Manly, A Copious English and Netherdutch Dictionary […] , Rotterdam, page 435:
   • Now the Carline remembered the coming of the said merchant, and how he had cast his love on the Maiden unhonestly and lustfully. 1898, William Morris, “LIII: They Come to Wethermel, and the Carline Begins a Tale”, in The Sundering Flood, Longmans, Green, and Company, →ISBN, page 294:
   • […]and was fond on her excedingly, ſo that for the loue of her he was ſicke: becauſe wheras ſhe was a virgin, it ſemed vnto him had hard to doe any thing vnhoneſtly with her. 1610, The Second Tome of the Holie Bible, […] (Douay–Rheims Bible), Doway: Laurence Kellam, […], →OCLC, 2 Kinges 13:2, page 658:

Forms

Synonyms

dishonestly