Word: dishonestly
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...partner, made a joke of it in an American Express card commercial. Chester A. Arthur had been nothing more than head of the customs house in New York when James Garfield took him onto his ticket. After Garfield's assassination, Arthur made a competent and honest President in a dishonest...
...Council and its Administrative Committee, and especially as a journalist, she has a right to express those opinions. But she must state them in an area of the newspaper clearly set aside for subjective arguments, preferably the Editorial or Opinion pages. It is both intellectually and journalistically dishonest, as well as unfair to the reader, for her to have accorded so much importance to her own biases in the context of what was supposed to have been a news story...
...dishonest decade" was the way W.H. Auden viewed the '30s; he was thinking of politics. Clifford Odets saw those years as a time when "every house was lousy with lies and hate"; he was thinking of the middle class. From the vantage point of a half-century, that appears to be all he ever thought about. It is not the most flattering way to remember the man who was once the lodestar of the Old Left. But then neither is the revival of his melodrama Awake and Sing...
Lawyers are no different from others. A few are dishonest and unscrupulous, but most are decent individuals trying to do well. It is disquieting to have the Chief Justice publicly berate the entire profession. One wonders how he would respond to an attorney who appeared before his court similarly misinformed...
...papers at conventions. He became the heir-apparent to the director-ship of the Freud Archives, even gained permission to go through a cupboard of previously unrevealed Freud letters. At the Archives, Masson unearthed what he believed was significant new documentation that Freud abandoned his seduction theory for intellectually dishonest reasons. Masson delivered a speech on his beliefs, and like a prodigal son was tossed out of the Archives and Eissler's life for attacking the master...