Word: deceitful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...second lecture, "Truthfulness and Deceit in Public Life," will feature Sissela Bok, who is a fellow in the department of population and international health at the Center for Population and Development Studies...
...feel like a character in a novel," Bill Clinton told an aide on the day the Lewinsky scandal broke. With equal parts self-pity and deceit, the President cast himself as the protagonist in Darkness at Noon, Arthur Koestler's 1941 classic about the victim of a totalitarian witch-hunt. Eight months later, in the pages of Kenneth Starr's report to Congress, Clinton finds himself the villain in a much trashier tale, a fetid blend of libido and legalese that reads like Jackie Collins by way of the Congressional Quarterly...
...tactics; he included far more sexual detail than was necessary to prove his point, and at times ignored or discounted evidence that contradicts his case. Still, many Americans--even those who have long assumed Clinton was lying--will be appalled by the depths of the President's recklessness and deceit. Others will say, Tell us something we didn't know...
...country. We all know that, and we can all remember his January speech in which he defiantly and angrily reacted to the young crisis with his statement, "I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky." But what might be worse than the initial lie is the deceit with which the President exercises his present defense...
Five minutes of contrition might not have made up for months of deceit, but five minutes of evasiveness and anger certainly didn't. And his more recent attempts at contrition have rung hollow in the wake of his first failed speech...