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Discover LudwigThe phrase "avoid dishonest" is not correct as it is incomplete.
It would typically need a noun to follow "avoid," such as "avoid dishonest behavior" or "avoid dishonest practices." You can use it when advising someone to steer clear of actions or behaviors that are not truthful or ethical.
Example: "In business, it is crucial to avoid dishonest practices to maintain a good reputation."
Alternatives: "steer clear of dishonesty" or "refrain from being dishonest.".
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A gentleman is understood to have a duty to avoid dishonest acts, displays of indecency, lawlessness, dealing unfairly, indecorum, injustice, or acts of cruelty.
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Abratt and Sacks (1988) suggest that consumers avoid transactions with dishonest and unethical organizations.
But she said that it would be dishonest to avoid depicting violence in films.
Beginning tonight, in his ceaseless endeavor to get drunk, stay out of jail, avoid creditors, make a dishonest living, seduce wealthy woman and defy authority, Shakespeare's creation will tour city parks in a show that bears his name.
Therefore, a mechanism to avoid the influence of dishonest recommendations from malicious recommenders is a fundamental problem for trust models.
Tax havens and secretive banking systems offered easy ways for dishonest citizens to avoid taxes.
Lenders must communicate with each other, through a formal or informal credit bureau, in order to avoid double or triple lending to dishonest borrowers.
ACORN denies trying to falsify voter registrations and asserts that any falsified forms were submitted by dishonest employees trying to avoid work.
The second strategy is the inattention to one's own moral standards, implemented so as to avoid any link between self and dishonest actions [6].
The honest man makes a true return; the dishonest hides and covers all he can to avoid this obnoxious tax.
Like it or not, however, their work deserves the name, and to avoid using it simply because it offends their sensibilities would be dishonest.
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