Shaik Dishonesty Quotes

-Street urchins live by their wits, which constitutes stealing or theft. (Earn money by clever and sometimes dishonest means/ having no regular occupation/ by one’s intelligence/ quick thinking/ dishonestly/ deceitfully/ corruptly/ underhandedly/ falsely/ by lying)

-The press portrayed Shaik as ethically different. [Euphemism] (Corrupt/ crooked/ unethical/ dishonest/ shady/ fraudulent/ immoral/ crooked/ deceitful/ false/ insincere/ mendacious/ underhand/ misleading/ have an itching palm)

-He had repeatedly called the police for no real reason. The next time he cries wolf, no one will believe him. (Call for help when it is not needed/ cry wolf/ lying/ dishonesty)

-The President delivers the address of a party highly divided, crippled by
{Investigation Discovery} (Serving one's own selfish interests, esp. at the expense of others {Your Dictionary})
~ My mind was becoming polarized by the contemplation of one object, success, and to it, human ties were unconsciously being sacrificed. {American Winston Churchill, a Far Country}

-Three times that day, Freddie had chased seedy-looking birds up side-streets and forced cash on them. {PG Wodehouse} (Shabby or unseemly in appearance/ shady/ odd/ weird/ unkempt/ low/ nasty/ grubby/ crook/ shabby/ scruffy)

-They realized with horror that the newly elected commissioner was a convicted felon. (Someone found guilty of a serious crime by a court of law/ criminal/ offender convict/ prisoner/ crook/ felon/ lawbreaker/ delinquent/ villain)

-The changes in weather temperature are most insidious. (Intended to entrap or beguile/ an insidious plan/ stealthily treacherous or deceitful/ harsh and unremitting / sinister/ treacherous/ crafty/ sneaky/ deceptive/ devious/ stealthy/ underhand/ dangerous /subtle/ menacing)
~ He has an insidious ace-in-the-hole against Confidential’s editor {James Ellroy}
~ The chances of finding her in these unforgiving landscape are slim (harsh and unremitting
{The Cynic's Word Book}

-These reprobates that patronize casinos and bawdy houses. (A morally unprincipled person/one who is predestined to damnation/morally unprincipled; shameless/ Rejected by God and without hope of salvation degenerates {Farlex}/ rascals/ troublemakers/ ne’er-do-wells/ sinners/ wrongdoers/ no-goods/ good-for-nothings)

-He was a degenerate gambler. (Having declined, as in function or nature, from a former or original state {Farlex}/ A degenerate is a person who has declined, as in morals or character, from a type or standard considered normal {Urban Dictionary}/ deteriorate / disintegrate/ worsen/ collapse/ relapse/ sink/ slip/ fall/ reduce)

-Comrade Threepwood, let us not become sordid on this glad occasion (marked by baseness or grossness/ morally ignoble or base; vile / wretched, squalid/ dirty or filthy /rude/unmannerly/ base/ disreputable/ repugnant/ disgusting/ despicable/ wretched/ nasty/ degenerate/ decadent/ dirty/ low/ distasteful/ foul)
~ The view was sordid