Word: dishonestly
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...critics maintain that he belongs to the 19th Century; that he is shortsighted in world affairs; that he is stubborn, cold, impatient of opposition; that he is tactless ("It is dishonest to be tactful," he says); that he lacks the kind of wisdom which comes from human understanding; that basically he distrusts the judgment of the people...
...perfectly authentic young-man-on-the-way-up, with all the trimmings: insomnia, a nice apartment on the correct street, seven suits, and the urge to leave his wife." His boss believed that "books are merchandise, like soap or toothpaste or fountain pens." Dick Eliot felt cheap and dishonest, but he was also a social climber with his eye on a social-register widow. So he promoted trash and got himself a nice raise...
...know of publishers, honorable men, who cast out of their shop patently dishonest advertising, yet their front pages are a mass of dishonest eight-column streamers nearly every day. Some papers feel the compulsion to propagate their owner's social, political and economic ideas in their news columns, unaware that freedom should include freedom of news from color and distortion...
...article which it published six years ago, the Reader's Digest investigated 19 radio repairmen in Manhattan, found 17 dishonest. Has the situation improved...
After conducting similar tests, the trade sheet Radio Daily reported that the situation in Manhattan is now simplified: 20 out of 20 repairmen investigated proved to be dishonest...