Word: dishonestly
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...making tax evasion a crime (maximum penalty: two years) and providing for payroll deductions and official inspection of private bank accounts. An economist and accountant with 22 years' experience in tax work, Travancas was a natural choice to head the program. He began by weeding out dishonest tax collectors and setting up special training programs for new recruits. To find Brazil's big spenders, Travancas' agents combed membership lists in race-track and yacht clubs, studied society columns, watched overseas flights and sailings, and compiled lists of the most prominent bankers, industrialists, ranchers and other businessmen...
Poshlost, says he, means "corny trash, vulgar cliches, Philistinism in all its phases, imitations of imitations, bogus profundities, crude, moronic and dishonest pseudo-literature, these are obvious examples. Now, if we want to pin down poshlost in contemporary writing we must look for it in Freudian symbolism, moth-eaten mythologies, social comment, humanistic messages, political allegories, overconcern with class or race, and the journalistic generalities we all know...
...even named the offending professors and exposed what he supposed to be their brainwashing techniques. The liberal academic establishment rose in wrath against this upstart. "As a believer in God, a Republican, and a Yale graduate," wrote McGeorge Bundy at the time, "I find that the book is dishonest in its use of facts, false in its theory, and a discredit to its author...
...widely regarded as devious, even dishonest. He brought to the presidency all the skills that he had perfected during 23 years in Congress-in particular, an adroitness at backstage maneuvering and a devout belief in secrecy and surprise. But what may be assets on the Hill have proved to be liabilities in the White House, and Johnson's lingering image as the crafty manipulator has done him immense harm. Many Americans seem convinced, as one observer of the presidency has written, that Johnson is a man who believes that "the shortest distance be tween two points is through...
...threaten confidentiality and to put an applicant in a position in which he is either dishonest or perhaps self-destructively truthful is not only unnecessary, it is immoral," Farnsworth said, destructively truthful is not unnecessary, it is immoral," Farnsworth said...