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dishonesty

[dis-on-uh-stee] / dɪsˈɒn ə sti /


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Hugo's brother, Jolyon, who is an NHS doctor, says the "litany of failures, both incompetence and dishonesty, that pervaded the care of both patients was harrowing."

From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026

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

Sentencing Murrell in June Lord Young said he had carried out a "calculated crime of dishonesty" but told the court he had been unable to identify a clear motive.

From BBC ● Aug. 8, 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

“Man, The Zed, you look well!” he said, his words aflame with dishonesty.

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“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




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