From the moment of the discovery of this act of dishonesty on the part of Webster, Parkman pursued his debtor with unrelenting severity.
They had gone to America together, he to avoid financial difficulties in which he had been involved by the dishonesty of the Jews.
A time when such cynical dishonesty was possible for a man of culture is not, it will be granted, a fortunate epoch for creditors.
He should have been the more careful of such an ambiguity of meaning, as he must have known well the lukewarm indifference and dishonesty of his fellow-reformers in political matters.
It is obvious, therefore, that an effective police, by making the profession of dishonesty difficult and precarious, can remove the principal incentive that makes men criminal.
Discussing each case on its merits, and giving full weight to the evidence on either side, Mr. Gairdner finds charges of untruthfulness and dishonesty established at every turn.
Cottonian library, they have suffered to some extent from the carelessness or dishonesty of borrowers.
If he who steals a dollar from a money-drawer is a thief, then he who by dishonestygets five hundred thousand dollars is five hundred thousand times more a thief.
Prevarication, misrepresentation, and dishonesty of speech appeared in their first utterances and was as natural to them as any of their infantile diseases, and was a sort of moral croup or spiritual scarlatina.
Two years afterwards, this black stamp was changed to brown, principally with a view to make the obliterating process more perfect, and the better to detect the dishonestyof using old stamps.
So to deprive the women of Essex of their right to vote to have the county buildings in Elizabeth, because of the undue excitement and dishonesty of the men, was to punish the best class of citizens for the crimes of the worst.
The way to prevent dishonesty is to let every man have a field for his work, and honest wages; the way to prevent licentiousness is to give to woman's capacity free play.
In general terms, however, we gather that the failure was due to the dishonestyof a debtor, occurring in conjunction with a succession of financial misfortunes.
It would bedishonesty to conceal these difficulties.
The objections to the genealogy were known long ago, indeed; and perhaps nothing shows more conclusively than this knowledge, the disgraceful dishonesty and willful deception of the most illustrious of Christian doctors.
Both governments ratified it; and so after these many years of patience and effort on the one side, evasion and sometimes dishonesty on the other, compensation for a portion of our grievances began to be received.
Their interests had suffered greatly from the dishonesty and inefficiency of the central government, and the presents of cake, fruit and confectionery offered to the Americans told their own story.
Dishonesty unfortunately prevents the regular progress of these administrative institutions.
You are apt to call it a dishonesty in us to refuse to follow out our reasonings, when faith stands in the way; is there no intellectual dishonesty in your own conduct?
For there had been serious graft and dishonesty in the politics of New Hampshire, and led by Anthony Graham the younger men in the state had been able to defeat the old-time political ring.
They had many friends and unless he were able to prove their dishonesty the bill might be passed in spite of the Governor's objections.
Immediately there sprang into being hordes of swindlers, who, aided by adroit shyster lawyers, invented all sorts of schemes which involved some sort of dishonesty upon the part of the person to be defrauded.
It was the same thing to him, in essence, to despoil a man of his property by larceny or by illogical or flagitious reasoning; and even to defeat a suitor by technicalities, or by merely arbitrary law, savored strongly of dishonesty to him.
He could sympathize with nearly any human weakness but dishonesty, and the dishonesty of trusted public servants seemed to him doubly reprehensible.
What did concern him mightily at this juncture, though, was the unmistakable trend toward dishonesty and bad faith into which such ideas were luring the State.
Next to retaining payments for which no equivalents in services have been rendered ranks the dishonesty of charging too much for work that has actually been done.
Mr. Grey had of late learned one thing which had before been dark to him,--had seen one phase of this complicated farrago of dishonesty which had not before been visible to him.
There was something in this which was detestable to Florence,--an unfairness, a dishonesty in putting off upon his trouble that absence of love which she had at last been driven by his vows to confess.
It was not that he believed in the honesty of his mother, whom he had never known, and for whose memory he cared little, but that he believed so fully in the dishonesty of his father.
This excellent teacher, Ray Stinnis, could no longer turn his back on the rampant dishonesty inherent in the department--the treatment afforded Diana had been the last straw.
It's OK to bring in anything that is derogatory or even believed to be derogatory about me and my casting spells on the students, but anything about their admitted dishonesty is verboten.
Together, these constitute repeated acts ofdishonesty which are grounds for termination for cause.
Instead, he wrote two pages filled with unsubstantiated hearsay and charges of insubordination and dishonesty based on Lyle's accusation and I want to answer them!
Well, no one thinks dishonesty is a good thing, at least I don't think anybody does.
A constant supply of masters in the arts of dishonesty is kept up by the system of short imprisonment.
Venantius (2), by his dishonesty has caused his guarantor Ulpianus to forfeit 400 solidi, ii.
The occasion of this cession was probably some league of mutual defence against the Franks, which Cassiodorus could without dishonesty represent as a kind of vassalage of Burgundy to Ostrogothia.
In after life the viciousness and unscrupulousness of his nature overmastered his hypocrisy and burst out in acts of dishonesty and profanity, which disgraced and drove him from the State.
There was but one man who ever imputed dishonesty to him, or selfish motives in any act.
In this method party compels dishonesty in politics, and is eminently demoralizing, for it is impossible to familiarize the conscience with political dishonesty without tainting the moral man in ordinary matters pertaining to life.
He envied Joe because he had traveled first-class, while he had thought himself fortunate, with the help his dishonesty gave him, in being able to come by steerage.
Injustice and fraud seemed to have the best of it in this world, so far as his experience went, and it really seemed as if dishonestywere the best policy.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dishonesty" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
