Adjective complement with noun phrase

• do: I know he would never do anything dishonest like changing a frame number.

Modifies a noun

• trader: Rogue traders Rogue traders are untrustworthy or dishonest traders who sell goods or services.

• intent: However few actions are successful because dishonest intent must be proved.

• tactic: Furthermore, many creationists have engaged in dishonest tactics like quoting out of context or making up references.

• assistance: By contrast, ' dishonest assistance ' is based upon the fault of the third party.

• conduct: For Indirect Taxes, if we identify irregularities due to dishonest conduct, a civil evasion penalty will normally be applied.

• argument: Some of his dishonest arguments have been considered in Part 1.

Modifying Another Word

• intellectually: To suppose that religion is the only such vehicle is intellectually dishonest.

• blatantly: Were they being blatantly dishonest in pursuit of votes?

• downright: This part of the article is in my opinion downright dishonest.

• fundamentally: Above all, socialists would be making a fundamentally dishonest proposition to the working class.

• profoundly: This is a profoundly dishonest account of what is troubling Europe.

• utterly: Look, you are being utterly dishonest in this stupid clipping.

Infinitive complement

• pretend: It would be totally dishonest to pretend Government can prevent such decisions.

• say: They are there to spread the word and it's dishonest to say otherwise.

• claim: But I'd be deeply dishonest to claim that it definitely will.

Used with adjective complement

• seem: It seems rather dishonest to do something without the involvement of Fairtrade.

• regard: The first question is whether a defendant's behavior would be regarded as dishonest by the ordinary standards of reasonable and honest people.

• become: Journalists are becoming increasingly dishonest - PRs always have been.

Preposition: by

• standard: The first question is whether a defendant's behavior would be regarded as dishonest by the ordinary standards of reasonable and honest people.