Sentence examples for dishonest exercise from inspiring English sources

A decade ago, Swedish film-maker Lukas Moodysson was being described by Bergman as a "young master", but his touch has recently failed him, and now his career has hit a real low with this fatuous, self-serving and fantastically dishonest exercise in pseudo-compassion, composed in the supercilious "globalised" style of Alejandro González Iñarritu's 2006 film Babel.

As lawyer and ethicist Jack Marshall wrote on his Ethics Alarm website: "Such dishonest exercises involving the intentional deception of hundreds of people carry a heavy burden of justification".

Dishonest nodes exercise the false praise and bad-mouthing attacks to show the impact on detection rate and false positives rate, respectively (Fig. 4).

Unless the "probity" of a public official is affected in one of three ways – dishonest or partial exercise of official functions, breaches of trust or misuse of information or material – then there is no corruption by the person who is not a public official.

As a statement ostensibly about the unexpected benefits of a recession, Warren's tweet is merely a dopey exercise in disingenuous, and therefore dishonest, optimism.

Expecting a workable solution to this economic meltdown from a man as knee-jerk, dishonest and incomprehensible as John McCain would be an exercise in national self-destruction.

The executive office has not been weakened by the other branches exercising their constitutional powers, but a dishonest president has.DAVID ENGLISHBostonVictorian valuesSIR Jim Ingram (Letters, January 9th) does not seem to have passed many history exams.

That seems to be the same argument that Trump made himself following the speech, where he blamed the "dishonest media" for taking his comments out of context, merely suggesting that Second Amendment supporters exercise their right to vote.

The statement spells out examples of academically dishonest behavior that he's encountered submitting another student's work, submitting a lab report for which the lab exercise was never performed, accessing another student's computer files and transferring data.

So dishonest!

Why "dishonest"?