dishonesty
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But somewhere between the “you go, girl” and #MeToo eras emerged a dishonesty around how we discuss women’s bodies.
From Salon ● Aug. 13, 2026
Oscar Barragan, who oversaw the agency’s special enforcement bureau, be discharged for violating the department’s policies on dishonesty and obstructing an investigation, according to an internal July 14 memo reviewed by The Times.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026
This dishonesty spoils the story and replicates the Bundists’ ideological vanity, minus their heroism.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain faces a re-election challenge in October amid allegations of dishonesty and underhanded management.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
It’s such a shame he still has a touch of dishonesty in him.
From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank
“When … caught in obvious and repeated lies and dishonesties, many will affect an air of total innocence, claiming without a trace of shame that they have been unfairly accused.”
From Slate ● Aug. 30, 2018
One father of a boy with autism, the film director Todd Drezner, has written an open letter to the film’s distributors that itemises Vaxxed’s dishonesties – and dismisses their own absurd claims, post-Tribeca, of censorship.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 16, 2016
He vacillates between grandiose justifications for his dishonesties and mea culpa self-flagellation: “Nothing like the silken whip of self-reproach to soothe a smarting conscience,” he observes.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 10, 2015
It is sure to lapse into intellectual dishonesties.
From Time Magazine Archive
His undoubted gifts as an anatomist allowed him to get away with the most barefaced dishonesties.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
