Improbity
Nouns
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improbity
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dishonesty, dishonor
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deviation from rectitude
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disgrace etc. (disrepute) Disrepute
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fraud etc. (deception) Deception
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lying etc. Falsehood
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bad faith, Punic faith
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infidelity
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faithlessness etc. adj.
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Judas kiss, betrayal. breach of promise, breach of trust, breach of faith
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prodition, disloyalty, treason, high treason
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apostasy etc. (tergiversation) Tergiversation
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nonobservance etc. Nonobservance. shabbiness etc. adj.
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villainy, villany
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baseness etc. adj.
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abjection, debasement, turpitude, moral turpitude, laxity, trimming, shuffling. perfidy
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perfidiousness etc. adj.
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treachery, double dealing
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unfairness etc. adj.
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knavery, roguery, rascality, foul play
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jobbing, jobbery
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graft, bribery
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venality, nepotism
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corruption, job, shuffle, fishy transaction
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barratry, sharp practice, heads I win tails you lose
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mouth honor etc. (flattery) Flattery.
Verbs
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be dishonest etc. adj.
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play false
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break one's word, break one's faith, break one's promise
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jilt, betray, forswear
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shuffle etc. (lie) Falsehood
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live by one's wits, sail near the wind. disgrace oneself, dishonor oneself, demean oneself
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derogate, stoop, grovel, sneak, lose caste
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sell oneself, go over to the enemy
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seal one's infamy.
Adjectives
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dishonest, dishonorable
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unconscientious, unscrupulous
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fraudulent etc. Deception
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knavish
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disgraceful etc. (disreputable) Penalty
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wicked etc. Vice. false-hearted, disingenuous
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unfair, one-sided
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double, double-hearted, double-tongued, double-faced
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timeserving, crooked, tortuous, insidious, Machiavelian, dark, slippery
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fishy
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perfidious, treacherous, perjured. infamous, arrant, foul, base, vile, ignominious, blackguard. contemptible, unrespectable, abject, mean, shabby, little, paltry, dirty, scurvy, scabby, sneaking, groveling, scrubby, rascally, pettifogging
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beneath one. low-minded, low-thoughted
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base-minded. undignified, indign
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unbecoming, unbeseeming, unbefitting
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derogatory, degrading
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beneath one's dignity
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ungentlemanly, ungentlemanlike
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unknightly, unchivalric, unmanly, unhandsome
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recreant, inglorious. corrupt, venal
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debased, mongrel. faithless, of bad faith, false, unfaithful, disloyal
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untrustworthy
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trustless, trothless
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lost to shame, dead to honor
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barratrous.
Adverbs
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dishonestly etc. adj.
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like a thief in the night, by crooked paths.
Int
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O tempora! , O mores!, [Cicero].