Word: dishonestly
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Your March 10 article on taxes was timely and informative. I shed no tears for my fellow citizens who are being hit where it hurts them most. For years they approved a dishonest tax, and they deserve all they get. Unscrupulous politicians have always understood that they could depend upon the votes of those who are moved by "envy, malice and all uncharitableness." The Marxian concept of graduated income and inheritance taxes was made to order for them . . . The Communist Manifesto advocated ten measures which should be adopted in order to bring about a dictatorship of the proletariat...
with harsh, dishonest words...
...their employers; special post-office boxes were opened to receive written accusations. In the campaign's early stages, Mayor Peng announced that some 32,000 Peking trading houses were guilty of at least one of the Five Antis, and that 80% of the government's dishonest civil servants had been tempted by "depraved merchants...
...student who replied to a secretly code-marked questionnaire said last night that he "strongly disapproved of such dishonest procedures and indicated that he would report any attempts by the firm to follow up the firm postal authorities as mail fraud...
Near the end of his speech, Truman tenderly fingered another Fair Deal sore point. "Some dishonest people," he said, "worm themselves into almost every human organization. It is all the more shocking, however, when they make their way into a Government such as ours ... I intend to see to it that federal employees who have been guilty of misconduct are punished...