Word: dishonestly
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...defendants unlawfully, willfully, and knowingly did combine, conspire, confederate and agree together and with each other to commit offenses against the United States . . . to defraud the United States and agencies thereof . . . interfering with and obstructing lawful governmental functions by deceit, craft, trickery and means that are dishonest...
Lieberman enlisted the aid of the Kenyon & Eckhardt agency to create one deceptive and one truthful television commercial for each of six fictitious products. A panel of 100 largely middle-income consumers watched the truthful commercials and another group of the same size, income and educational level saw the dishonest versions. Both sets of commercials used the same actors, and except for the misleading bits, the same language. Yet in four of the six tests, the cheating commercial placed well ahead of the honest promotion in coaxing the audience into a buying mood...
...ASIDE from isolated scenes, the film is so dishonest and uninteresting that all the talk which builds it up as an unprecedented masterwork will probably leave you embittered -- especially if you shell out UA's asking-price at $4.50 a look. There is no story: the characters' lives are composed of sensationalistic incidents, and the motives for the way they live are never developed or explained. At film's beginning, Paul, the American expatriate, is just a ravaged romantic, and at the end he is a dead one. Jeanne, a babied product of the Parisian middle-class, is throughout nothing...
Polygraphers argue that businessmen simply must protect themselves against dishonest employees. "There comes a time when your privacy and mine has to be weighed against the company's being stolen blind and put out of business," says J. Kirk Barefoot, former president of the 900-member American Polygraph Association. So many businessmen obviously agree that, for a while at least, many employees will have to regard a polygraphic game of truth or consequences as a normal part of their working lives...
...audience feels this, too, but there is something uneasy, something dishonest in Herb Gardner's original Broadway comedy. The fact is that Murray, however appealing, is disgusted with the very world that creates the play: his snide, wise-guy humor and his rah-rah sense of fun sit smugly in the hackneyed phrases and conditioned attitudes of the Madison Avenue mentality he scorns. This is hardly getting down to the roots of self-honesty. When a sentimental and moralizing tone begins to rear its nasty little head near the end, the message, which is fairly muddled anyway, becomes downright offensive...