Sentence examples for downright dishonest from inspiring English sources

I find that argument quite disingenuous if not downright dishonest.

To present Carter as an authoritative commentator on climate science may not be downright dishonest.

And that was before a downright dishonest budget on April 22nd.The budget was a crucial one, for two reasons.

Over a standing ovation, he continued, "There are too many people in the media who are downright dishonest".

Some call for delays, transitional reliefs or to apply cuts only to new claimants, but these are downright dishonest: they only disguise the harm done.

Let's not beat around the bush: the government's justification for getting rid of the SDC is transparently vacuous, if not downright dishonest.

Recent years have seen many misleading--and some downright dishonest--authorship decisions, and some of them have gotten a lot of attention.

"I think it's dishonest and downright deceitful that they would use footage of me to try to play tricks and fool voters," Quinn said in a statement.

"I got to know Duvalier as a man who is by turn intellectually dishonest, manipulative, even downright clueless," wrote Haitian-born journalist Marjorie Valbrun in a 2011 Washington Post essay, which recollected interviews she had conducted with Baby Doc in 2003.

Over the course of our meetings in Paris, in fancy hotels and in modest Haitian restaurants, and during subsequent telephone conversations and e-mail exchanges, I got to know Duvalier as a man who is by turn intellectually dishonest, manipulative, even downright clueless.

I've been sad, irresponsible with money, dishonest, angry, and downright selfish in sobriety.