Apart from avoiding (intentionally) deceitful words, the culture of informed consent endorses extensive positive obligations to disclose all relevant information.
And we have also seen your Underminister of the White House, Madame Hillary Clinton, speaking her most deceitful words on the television.
In the last week we've moved from the 16 deceitful words in George W. Bush's State of the Union speech to the 28 White House-censored pages in the congressional report that dealt with Saudi Arabia's role in the Sept. 11 terrorist attack on the United States.
On Monday he launches a scathing attack on his detractors in a short memoir, L'Imposture des Mots (The Deceitful Word), that will set the cat among the pigeons of France's literary establishment.
In Walter Isaacson's biography, "Kissinger," the same words cascade: "deceitful," "disingenuous," "paranoid," "insecure," "temper tantrum," "flatterer," "two-faced" and "secretive".
It's a song about deceitful women, and the last word goes to Jadakiss, the appealing Yonkers rapper whose scratchy voice sounds like an anti-smoking ad.
But underhand serves, especially when they are perceived to provide a performance advantage, are ethically questionable, perceived as deceitful trickery, and, in a word, underhanded.
Jake Arnott's The Fatal Tree, out in February, delves deep into the life of the Georgian criminal Edgworth Bess denounced by her former lover Jack Sheppard with the damning words "a more wicked, deceitful and lascivious wretch is not known in England".
"Deceitful" would be a more accurate word.
In other words, the problem is not with deceitful priests who violate the vows they voluntarily took.
I am speaking of a deceitful and hidden form of terrorism that uses words as bombs that explode, causing devastation in peoples' lives.
