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1. In an unbecoming manner; indecorously.
c. 1380. Wyclif, Sel. Wks., II. 193. Trowe we not þat Crist dide here dispitously or unhonestly, spittynge in þis mannis face?
c. 1400. Maundev. (Roxb.), xxvi. 123. When þai hafe eten, þai wype þaire hend on þaire clathez vnhonestly.
1502. Arnolde, Chron. (1811), 278. Item that the chircheyard is vnhon[e]stly kepte.
2. With dishonor; disgracefully; discreditably, dishonorably; dishonestly.
1382. Wyclif, 2 Macc. ix. 1. In the same tyme Antiochus turnyde aȝein vnonestly [L. inhoneste] fro Perse.
c. 1449. Pecock, Repr., 325. As into this point, that he therbi be iust or uniust,… doing honestli or doing vnhonestli.
1535. Coverdale, Ecclus. x. 34. Who so ordreth himself vnhonestly in riches, how moch more shal he behaue himself vnhonestly in pouerte?
1598. R. Bernard, trans. Terence, Adelphos, II. i. I my selfe am very vnhonestly dealt withall.
1628. Feltham, Resolves, II. ii. 5. As I would neuer doe any thing vnhonestly, so I would neuer feare the immateriall wind of censure, when it is done.
1648. Hexham, II. Oneerbaerlick, Vnhonestly, Dishonestly, or Impudently.
1721. Strype, Eccl. Mem., II. 388. Most unhonestly slandering old Writings.
3. Indecently, immorally.
1382. Wyclif, 2 Sam. xiii. 2. The which for she was a mayde, hard to hym it semede, that eny thing vnhonestly [L. inhoneste] he shulde do with hir.
c. 1400. Pilgr. Sowle (Caxton, 1483), III. x. 56. These it ben that so horrybly stynken,… for they haue liued ful vnhonestly in fowle lustes.
1486. Rec. St. Mary at Hill (1905), 12. Yf the same preest so chosen vnhonestly behave hym.
1535. Coverdale, Prov. xii. 4. She that behaueth herself vnhonestly, is a corrupcion in his bones.
1597. Beard, Theatre God’s Judgem. (1612), 400. His Proctors wife, with whom … he acquainted himselfe ouer familiarly and vnhonestly.
1609. Bible (Douay), 2 Sam. xiii. 2. 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.
