Synonyms: venal, bribable, purchasable, corruptible, dishonest
Definition: capable of being corrupted
Usage: corruptible judges; dishonest politicians; a purchasable senator; a venal police officer
Similar words: corrupt
Definition: lacking in integrity
Usage: humanity they knew to be corrupt...from the day of Adam's creation; a corrupt and incompetent city government
Synonyms: dishonest, dishonorable
Definition: deceptive or fraudulent; disposed to cheat or defraud or deceive
Similar words: duplicitous, double-dealing, double-faced, double-tongued, deceitful, ambidextrous, Janus-faced, two-faced
Definition: marked by deliberate deceptiveness especially by pretending one set of feelings and acting under the influence of another
Usage: she was a deceitful scheming little thing- Israel Zangwill; a double-dealing double agent; a double-faced infernal traitor and schemer- W.M.Thackeray
Similar words: beguiling
Definition: misleading by means of pleasant or alluring methods
Usage: taken in by beguiling tales of overnight fortunes
Similar words: deceitful, fallacious, fraudulent
Definition: intended to deceive
Usage: deceitful advertising; fallacious testimony; smooth, shining, and deceitful as thin ice - S.T.Coleridge; a fraudulent scheme to escape paying taxes
Similar words: deceptive, shoddy, misleading
Definition: designed to deceive or mislead either deliberately or inadvertently
Usage: the deceptive calm in the eye of the storm; deliberately deceptive packaging; a misleading similarity; statistics can be presented in ways that are misleading; shoddy business practices
Similar words: false
Definition: designed to deceive
Usage: a suitcase with a false bottom
Similar words: picaresque
Definition: involving clever rogues or adventurers especially as in a type of fiction
Usage: picaresque novels; waifs of the picaresque tradition; a picaresque hero
Similar words: rascally, blackguardly, scoundrelly, roguish
Definition: lacking principles or scruples
Usage: the rascally rabble; the tyranny of a scoundrelly aristocracy - W.M. Thackaray; the captain was set adrift by his roguish crew
Similar words: thieving, thievish
Definition: given to thievery