Word: dishonestly
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...Harold, a chartered accountant who regarded life as a sort of income-tax return and his Creator as an Inspector of Internal Revenue. The Inspector, as Harold sees Him, is not a Kafka type. He expects a human being's accounts to be extremely businesslike, and not entirely dishonest. If the main items - church at tendance, Rotary, propriety - are in order, the Inspector is sport enough not to query the "fiddles," i.e., the "legitimate" little gimmicks with which Harold saves his grateful clients many a penny and adds a few cubits to his own balance...
...Categories. Still incensed, Bill wrote another letter-this time to The $64,000 Question. "It was an ill-mannered one saying that I thought all quiz programs were dishonest." The show replied by sending him an entry blank. Taking the precaution to fill out the form, he sent it back with another blistering letter. These tactics, oddly enough, won him a personal interview. Bill announced that he was an expert on literature, but could see that his interviewers found this fairly dull...
TIME is neat, compact and well-written. But I think it dishonest of TIME to overplay modern art, and show such senile distortionalists and juvenile paint slingers. I do not question the right of any individual to be an expressionist, distortionalist or eggbeater-ist-to trickle, sling or spray paint. If these people find happiness, well and good. There may be a revolution in the art world, but there are others who rebel against being cultured, and wish to remain uncouth and unartistic...
...attack on the Dixon-Yates contract. Rattled by the committee's questions, he suffered lapses of memory on vital points, and left a bad impression. He was at his most lucid when he said: "We may have made mistakes, the Lord knows, but there was nothing phony or dishonest or any conspiracy with anybody as far as any dealings that we had . . . Now today, with all that I know now, I certainly would have done differently...
Glaser found the Worker as inefficient as it was journalistically dishonest. Once he asked a copyboy for a cut of William Green, the late A.F.L. leader. After much searching, the cut was found filed under "P"-for "prominent labor fakers...