Word: dishonest
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...regulatory agencies and regulations for that matter. It is what keeps four-year-olds from becoming airline pilots and orangutans from being airline mechanics. The theory behind regulation is simple. It is based on the fact that people are not intelligent enough to take care of themselves or too dishonest to take care of others...
...victims, when this is by no means a universal truth. Forced sexual encounters are tragic occurrences that will erode sexual equality as long as they persist, but to establish the lying, cheating beau as the norm in sexual relationships is regressive and destructive. It instills a resignation that a dishonest scoundrel is all a heterosexual woman should hope for, when, in reality, any woman who writes off all men in one fell swoop is probably a bit of a dog herself...
...addition to the requisite Annenberg invasion and the always effective "Moose making random campus appearances," Dunsterites are considering distributing condoms with "funny notes attached." How cruel and dishonest. What could be worse than giving freshmen condoms and then banishing them to the land of the walk-throughs...
...Perhaps the main reason that people lose faith in their governments is that they believe the people in charge are either incompetent or dishonest. The average person must wonder whether anyone is in charge when the forecasts of bank failure rates are unbelievably low at the same time that the Administration is debating whether it may have to nationalize Citigroup (C) or Bank of America...
...dishonest to pretend that inherent judgments regarding the age and gender of a man’s sexual partner are not at play in the Adams scandal. The story of Sam Adams—that duplicitous homosexual!—indicates something we all already knew: sometimes, politicians lie, whether they’re gay, straight, male or female. End of story. People who insist that this alone is a shocking fact—independent of Adams’s sexuality—are woefully self-deceived...