Example Sentences

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“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

Frequently denounced as a literary renegade for renouncing the picturesque dishonesties of his earlier work, Graves frequently falls, in his Collected Poems, into picturesque denunciations of the world of his denouncers.

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