Word: dishonestly
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...sick, then he got used to it. Once he got drunk and liked it very much. Maggie May was horrified and made him get a different job. Kip always accepted bribes, then arrested the briber, turned in the money to the office. He was also very successful at betraying dishonest colleagues. One of his bosses once told him: "Ye're a bit too gude for this worrld, young man; but ye'll have a fine time in the next one. I've nae doot." Even Author Sinclair calls his hero "a wet blanket, a killjoy, a spoilsport...
...allow Government to creep into our economic life only by the back door. We are afraid of regulation, primarily because our governments have been corrupt and ugly. Perhaps we keep the State ugly and dishonest as an excuse for turning it away more readily from the portals of business...
...Monroe Owsley is a cad gives away the plot. Last week he was a cad in Honor Among Lovers and, sure enough, Ten Cents a Dance has an identical story about two men in love with a girl, the rich young man decent and the poor young man (Owsley) dishonest and weak. The only difference between Honor Among Lovers and Ten Cents a Dance is that the latter is set against a dancehall background instead of the beau monde and that handsome Barbara Stanwyck is in it. Spectators know as soon as they see Owsley that Ricardo Cortez is going...
...heels of Il Duce's recent threat to punish speculators and dishonest financiers with "Death" (TIME, Oct. 13) followed, last week, drastic action -though not quite so drastic as might have been expected...
...badger game" is so old a criminal trick that dictionaries describe it. A dishonest woman lures a lickerish man into her apartment. Suddenly appears the '"husband," who for cash will overlook his "wife's" indiscretion. Occasionally such blackmail is worked by low men upon rich women. Rarely have the victims sufficient hardihood to resist the imposition...