ill-gottenadjective [ before noun ]
uk/ˌɪlˈɡɒt.ən/us/ˌɪlˈɡɑː.t̬ən/mainly humorousdishonestly obtained:
He deposited his ill-gotten gains in foreign bank accounts.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Dishonest
- bad faith
- be rotten to the core idiom
- be up to no good idiom
- bent
- cowboy
- down-and-dirty
- dubious
- false
- finagle
- fishy
- malfeasance
- mendacious
- misleading
- perjure
- rich
- underhand
- unreliable
- unscrupulous
- unsporting
- weasel
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