Word: dishonestly
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...that he has decided that card carrying Communists should be forbidden to teach in "schools," and by this I assume he means colleges and universities as well as public schools. His argument, no doubt, is that by the nature of their affiliation, members of the Communist Party are intellectually dishonest people: that is, they pattern their statements, not after the facts as they see and interpret them, but after a party line the formation of which they do not influence, and the content of which is contradictory and in many instances consciously false...
...Atlantic Monthly article criticizing Buckley's charges of widespread "atheism" and "collectivism" at Yale, Bundy termed the book "dishonest in its use of facts, false in its theory, and a discredit to its author...
...film is a re-issue which has not been on the American screen since 1936. It has been used successfully by liberal and rightist candidates in the post-war Italian and French elections, although its versions of Western life are dishonest. The major fault of the film is in the directing; the transition between Garbo the Comrade and Garbo the Siren is to abrupt. However, the plot and dialogue are extremely amusing. People should see "Ninotchka" and get all possible laughs from black-bearded Communism of fifteen years...
...client (Fred MacMurray) that he has inherited $2,000,000, decides to make a favorable impression on the heir apparent before spilling the good news. She impresses him as a lunatic, disrupts his wedding, woos him in a boxcar, wins him with the connivance of a poor but dishonest psychiatrist (Richard Carlson). By the time MacMurray is convinced that the inheritance is actually his, the money has flown. His problem, and an interminably coy movie, could have been mercifully forestalled by a phone call in the first reel...
...Steadily and inevitably, the intercollegiate athletic program has usurped a dominating position in the college ... It has become a commercial enterprise demanding winning teams at any cost, even the cost of dishonest academic practice. It has demanded that admission requirements be lowered, and sometimes dispensed with, so that promising athletes can be given the respectability of college enrollment. Limited scholarship funds which should aid young men and women of intellectual promise . . . must go to athletes whose sole recommendation for such aid is their athletic prowess...