Word: dishonestly
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Timid? Cowardly? Vain? Dishonest? Untruthful? Easily bored? Was this, wondered London last week, any way to describe the healthy, cricket-playing backbone of the Empire, the British public school boy? Heaven forbid. But there, in banner headlines in the London Press, glowered those very words. What bounder had dared utter them...
...shall never have a decent and clean city administration so long as we elect dishonest...
Public Economy: ". . . Prompt and drastic reduction of public expenditure. . . . The party will continue to uphold the gold standard. Relief by currency inflation is unsound in principle and dishonest in results. An ailing body cannot be cured by quack remedies...
...charges are an] insincere, unprincipled and dishonest campaign of deliberate slander ... by a little handful of ambitious men who seem quite willing to stab the State's greatest institution in the back if they think they might thereby advance their personal or political fortunes...
...that he can filch her pearls, is an attractive and impoverished Baron (John Barrymore). In a corridor, the Baron makes friends with a pretty stenographer (Joan Crawford). She is waiting to take dictation from a disagreeable textile tycoon (Wallace Beery). The tycoon, named Preysing, is so engrossed in dishonest tricks to escape financial ruin that he fails to recognize one of his own clerks. The clerk (Lionel Barrymore) is incurably ill; he has come to the hotel to finish his last days in one burst of unaccustomed luxury. Also to be observed are a sententious doctor (Lewis Stone) with...