unhonestly

comparative more unhonestly · superlative most unhonestly

1. obsoleteSynonym of dishonestly.

   Vnhoneſtly, oneerbaerlijck, oftefameusſelijck.

   1675 [1647], Henry Hexham, edited by Daniel Manly, A Copious English and Netherdutch Dictionary […] , Rotterdam, page 435

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   […]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

   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

   Synonyms: dishonestly