dishonesty
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Meanwhile, a court-appointed monitor for the union has accused Fain of dishonesty and underhanded management tactics.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
As De Palma posits, this was always a place where corruption and dishonesty could flourish.
From Salon ● Jul. 4, 2026
Kismet Kebabs were fined £500,000 in court and ordered to pay £259,298 costs, as Judge Huw Rees said the firm had engaged in "considerable dishonesty" over a prolonged period of time.
From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026
Judge Lord Young said Murrell had carried out a "calculated crime of dishonesty".
From BBC ● Jun. 23, 2026
To mitigate her dishonesty, she deflected all honor from herself, filling her letters widi praise for Zoe.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
“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
Finally, says Author Scherman, the combination of all these Governmental dishonesties is the main cause of depressions.
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
