Word: dishonestly
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...photography, Shekhina, featured all slim models, something he says a "large-bodied" woman pointed out to him at a seminar. "This is a different representation of beauty--not the one our culture programs us to appreciate," Nimoy says. As for Alley's autobiographical show, Fat Actress, "it's deplorable, dishonest and contrived," he says. "My models are proud people. [Alley is] lying on the floor crying." And that's before she gets the Vulcan death grip...
...tracing one’s bloodline can become complicated. A person might know he has a Native American grandparent, yet he might be distant from that relative. He might be unsure of the tribe. But that does not change the fact that he is Native American. He is not dishonest in checking the box accordingly, even though he can provide no proof and does not know his tribe...
...government’s involvement in their production. Once completed, all at the government’s expense, the clips are distributed free to ever-thrifty news outlets that are only too eager to air the material with little or no indication of its origin. The practice is inherently dishonest, both as a way for the government to promote itself and as a source of cheap programming for news outlets...
...government is dishonest in this form of self-promotion because by disguising taxpayer-financed public relations statements as objective news broadcasts, the government makes a deliberate attempt to prey on Americans’ trust of the news media as a source of unbiased information. The Bush administration has, with pre-packaged news, stumbled on a most insidious breed of propaganda: by doing news programs the (dubious) favor of covering pro-Bush news for them, the administration has taken rabid self-promotion to new depths. In the process, the Bush administration has implicated itself in a dizzying conflict-of-interest, made...
...almost as dangerous as his previous job. Together with photographer Jack Birns, Rowan flies around China with hotdog American pilots, using their supply runs and rescue missions to get close to the action. Rowan's descriptions of the difficulty of the reporting itself?with a Nationalist news service chronically dishonest about its side's frequent defeats, and communications infrastructure under constant siege by Mao's rebel armies?underscore how tattered the country was on the eve of the Communist takeover...