Jeannette Walls

What's wrong with social climbing? What's wrong with trying to improve your lot in life? And if you do, what happens if your family doesn't? Is that betraying your roots? Are you being dishonest? I had a really good job, and it paid really well. Am I supposed to quit it out of loyalty to my parents?

American Writer

Jim Parrack

I know why people lie to themselves in life, but I'll never understand the appeal of the dishonest theater where the actor doesn't make some earnest attempt to include their own honest humanity in their collaboration with an author. It's so ugly to me that it hurts sometimes to see it happen.

American Actor

Cherie Lunghi

I try to live my life as honestly as I can, and the last thing I want is to pretend to be something I'm not. To pretend to myself I am a sex symbol would somehow be dishonest. I'd feel, in my heart, that I were behaving artificially and that's the last thing I want to do.

English Actress

Si Robertson

A lot of people don't believe there's evil. If there's good in this world, then you're being intellectually dishonest, if you believe there's a good power, you've also got to believe there's an evil power, too. There are physical laws that are in place.

American Celebrity

Paul G. Tremblay

There's no objective reason anyone can point to that proves a horror story is innately inferior or that it's doomed to fail as a work of art because of it being horror. Anyone saying otherwise is being intellectually dishonest.

American Author

Vincent Gallo

My parents were dishonest people. If it was my birthday, I knew my mother took me to the K-Mart and she stole my toy. She'd put it in the shopping cart and we'd walk out. I was raised with that.

John F. Kennedy

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.

American President

Lady Gaga

I think what's important is for us to decipher what is honest and what is dishonest and be accepting of those things and not operating from fear.

American Singer

Thomas Carlyle

The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity.

Scottish Philosopher

Patrick Kavanagh

It might be said that the pose of absolute honesty is the most dishonest one of all.

Irish Poet

Used to describe people who deceive others in personal situations, often breaking trust.

Personal Dishonesty

Being dishonest can damage relationships and trust, having a long-lasting emotional effect.

Emotional Impact

Dishonesty can involve partial truths or leaving out information, not just outright lies.

Subtle Lies

Dishonesty in legal contexts can lead to severe penalties, including fines or imprisonment.

Legal Consequences

It's used for actions in business or work that are illegal or violate professional ethics.

Professional Fraud

Dishonest legal behavior breaches ethical standards and can tarnish one's professional reputation.

Ethical Breach

Dishonesty in advertising means making false claims to trick consumers into buying.

Advertising Mislead

Spreading false or inaccurate information intentionally often to manipulate public opinion.

Misinformation

Used for strategies aimed at deceiving others for personal gain or to avoid consequences.

Manipulative Tactics

 history of being involved in all kinds of shenanigans and dishonest things but this is so far beyond the pale this would be a conspiracy that would have to involve thousands if not tens of thousands of people and it involved the slaughter of five or six thousand people and there are just so many moving parts

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 if you issue a veiled bribe, then the dishonest officer could interpret it as a bribe, in which case you get the payoff of going free. The honest officer can't hold you to it as being a bribe, and therefore, you get the nuisance of the traffic ticket. So you get the best of both worlds.

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 think that following the evidence is also morally required. One argument for this view is that having well-informed, accurate beliefs is often vitally important to determining the ethical way to act. Another argument is that there’s something unethical about being dishonest,

Ethical dilemma: Who...

 dishonest politician although there was a nineteenth-century newspaper editor who does to find it rather better when he said it's nollie gosta is a fellow who seeks office regardless of party platform or principal and who when he wins gets there by the sheer force of

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 or appealing to authority, helps us gain knowledge, but, it doesn't always. Even the most highly respected authorities can turn out to be wrong. Occasionally this happens because a highly respected authority is dishonest and claims to know something

How do you know whom to...

 Isn't optimism obsolete, backwards and naive, given all we've been through? Shouldn't it be replaced with a more up-to-date cognitive technology? Well, lots of people have replaced it with the notion that humanity is greedy, selfish and dishonest.

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 is far more significant. When they're used well, graphs can help us intuitively grasp complex data. But as visual software has enabled more usage of graphs throughout all media, it's also made them easier to use in a careless or dishonest way.

How to spot a misleading...

 It would be easy to conclude that institutional trust isn't working because we are fed up with the sheer audacity of dishonest elites, but what's happening now runs deeper than the rampant questioning of the size and structure of institutions.

We've stopped trusting...

 The rooms are secure, and no one observes the rolls. That means a contestant could add incorrectly, or worse, be dishonest and make up a score they didn’t achieve. This is where you come in.

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 children are the overlooked victims of their parents' crimes. Until last November, I was a serving prisoner, imprisoned for fraud. I was dishonest, and I paid the penalty.