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dishonestly

adv

Etymology

From Middle English dishonestly (“disgracefully”); equivalent to dishonest + -ly.

  1. inherited from dishonestly — “disgracefully”

Definitions

  1. In a dishonest manner.

    • Section 13 of the 1968 Act enacts a separate offence of dishonestly abstracting electricity. The separate offence is needed because electricity, like other forms of energy such as heat, is not property.
    • Some prominent conservative media figures on Monday dishonestly used the death of former US Secretary of State Colin Powell, who died of Covid-19 complications, to cast doubt on the effectiveness of the coronavirus vaccines.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at dishonestly. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at dishonestly. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at dishonestly

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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