Word: deceitful
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...such conduct. But, nevertheless, we believe that the punishment is too harsh. A man can never outgrow the stigma attached to his name for an act of dishonesty widely known. However hard he may try to be upright in after life, however far removed from his true character deceit may be, this one heedless act will expose him to the scorn of all the world and will prevent his becoming a useful man. Finding no man who trusts him, his career is doomed in advance to failure. The publishing of his name has branded him for life...
...vitiates the conscience of the indivdual by encouraging deceit and evasion...
...Service at Appleton Chapel, yesterday afternoon. He took as the subject of his sermon, the hypocrisy which people are so often guilty of, when they try to hide their best feelings and impulses, and to appear cynical and indifferent. This hypocrisy is, he said, much more dangerous than the deceit of a man who tries to be better than he really is. A man cannot divide his allegiance. God demands his whole heart and life...
However, as the word hypocracy really means "acting" without any idea of deceit, we may apply the word to ourselves, remembering its original significance. The whole tendency of modern life, is compelling one to a sort of hypocrisy, or "acting;" not a conscious thing necessarily, but a way of presenting ourselves to people as we wish to be thought of, and not as we really are. This "acting" has crept by degrees into everything in daily life, and even into our religion. Men actually deceived themselves that they can play a part, so to speak, even before God Himself...