309 examples of dishonesty in sentences

The extreme dishonesty that prevailed among the Greek officials explains the selection of monks as treasurers for military objects; and it must lessen our surprise at finding men of their religious professions sharing in the general avarice, or tolerating the habitual peculations of others.

It is not fair to accuse the Romans on that occasion of dishonesty; but this account assuredly originated with later writers, who transferred to barbarians the right belonging to a nation standing in a legal relation to another.

Even the penultimate scene of the tragedy, when she presents an inventory of her treasures to Octavian, and is charged by her steward with dishonesty, shows her in uncivilized violence striking the man in the face and bursting into indecent fury, such as an Athenian, still less a Roman, matron would have been ashamed to exhibit.

War is despised or feared, courage less to be relied upon than astute knavery, and one of the facts that strikes us is the general frivolity, dishonesty, and cruelty which prevail through the tales of Bagdad.

Eve asked innocently; for, an heiress herself, her vigilance had early been directed to that great motive of deception and dishonesty.

" "Nay, I protest against this statement of the case, for I affirm that the reviewer exposes a great deal more than his rage, since his imbecility, ignorance, and dishonesty, are quite as apparent as any thing else.

Improbity N. improbity^; dishonesty, dishonor; deviation from rectitude; disgrace &c (disrepute) 874; fraud &c (deception) 545; lying &c 544; bad faith, Punic faith; mala fides [Lat.], Punica fides [Lat.]; infidelity; faithlessness &c adj.; Judas kiss, betrayal.

But, with most men, innate vanity is accompanied by loquacity and innate dishonesty.

However, this very dishonesty, this persistence in a proposition which seems false even to ourselves, has something to be said for it.

My opponent immediately attacked the reason I had given, and triumphantly proved to me that when a tradesman was falsely accused of misrepresentation, dishonesty, or neglect in his business, it was an attack upon his honour, which in this case was outraged solely by what he suffered, and that he could only retrieve it by punishing his aggressor and making him retract.

Here was a grove fenced with a dense wood and tall fir trees, with rich pastures in its centre, in which cattle of every kind, sacred to the goddess, fed without any keeper; the flocks of every kind going out separately and returning to their folds, never being injured, either from the lying in wait of wild beasts, or the dishonesty of men.

He had been dishonest always; but it was the dishonesty of a weak and unscrupulous nature, not without generosity.

And so you see men who really wish to be honest and kindly themselves, making no scruple of profiting by other people's dishonesty and cruelty.

" At last, she nagged him into her theory, although he fairly loathed writing a pot-boiler, and considered it the purest dishonesty.

To no conceivable social state is man inherently fitted: he is a creature of jealousy and suspicion, unstable, restless, acquisitive, aggressive, intractable, and of a most subtle and nimble dishonesty.

But I think the trouble with Thackeray is not that he makes first-personal interventions, but that he does so with a curious touch of dishonesty.

Of course, Sane Voting is not a short cut to the millennium, it is no way of changing human nature, and in the new type of assembly, as in the old, spite, vanity, indolence, self-interest, and downright dishonesty will play their part.

Beyond the rules of the game it is all a question either of talent or dishonesty; and I will undertake to provide either one or the otherwhich, it is not for me to say.

He had corresponded with Mr. Wordsworth and knew that members of his family had suffered heavily from the dishonesty of the State; and perhaps no passages in his great speeches against repudiation were more effective than those in which he thus brought his fine literary taste and feeling to the support of the claims of public honesty.

That a man who regards it solely us supreme literature, should impress it upon the young as the supernaturally inspired word of God and the accurate record of objective occurrences, is a piece of the plainest and most shocking dishonesty.

Already, therefore, it is possible without intellectual dishonesty to look forward to a future for the race which need not be reached through a welter of blood and hatred.

Then he had decided to give Chaffery a sound lecture on his disastrous dishonesty.

"I might forgive them their dishonesty," said Chaffery, "but the stupidity of it, the mental self-abnegationLord!

It is one of those cases in which the honest and good have to endure a portion of the evil produced by the dishonesty of the wicked.

Dishonesty put them back.

309 examples of  dishonesty  in sentences