Word: dishonestly
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...first night in the White House in 1800, John Adams wrote to his wife Abigail, "May none but honest and wise men rule under this roof." Adams notably did not include an exception for dishonest, reckless behavior in the President's private life. The media's interest in this story is entirely appropriate given the seriousness of the charges and the potential consequences for the presidency and the nation...
...Rainmaker, cleverly adapted by Francis Ford Coppola from a John Grisham novel, is honest, commercial fun, and Good Will Hunting, which is written by Damon and his co-star (and old buddy) Ben Affleck, is finally dishonest, but in ways that will delude the impressionable into thinking it's saying something important...
...gives their children easy access to. In both cases there was a previously settled trade-off between personal freedom and other values until the Internet came along and worsened the terms. Freedom suddenly costs more in terms of the competing values. I still side with freedom, but it's dishonest not to acknowledge that the price has gone...
...50th anniversary of independence from the British, Salman Rushdie provides a brutal but honest assessment of the grim political and social scenario in India [WORLD, Aug. 11]. I often wonder what has wounded India more--200 years of colonial rule or 50 years of pseudosocialist government by lackluster, dishonest politicians. RAJENDRA K. ANEJA Sao Paulo...
Harrison, who is a novelist, said she disguised her relationship with her father in her first book, Thicker Than Water. But she disliked the result because "in fictionalizing what really happened, I had been dishonest in a way that became increasingly painful...