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The group primarily backing the measure, Cats Are Not Trophies, argues that allowing these animals to be killed is unethical, unnecessary, and serving no public good.Jack Birle, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 2 Nov. 2024
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As local government careens from one corruption scandal to the next, the city and county of Los Angeles each charged forward this election season with ballot measures to try to crack down on unethical behavior by public officials.Rebecca Ellis, Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2024
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And if an unprincipled president began his tenure by firing senior military officers for partisan political reasons, the military would lose trust in the executive branch and tensions would grow between the two sides.Peter D. Feaver, Foreign Affairs, 13 Sep. 2024
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Cazale excelled, instead, at playing people who are weak, weird, unprincipled, and visibly uncomfortable in their own skins.Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 10 Apr. 2024
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If bottles of fake pre-ban absinthe can be produced (perhaps by adding oak chips to modern absinthe and microwaving it) and then used to fill old bottles sourced via internet sales, the potential for unscrupulous profits is huge.Tom Mullen, Forbes, 3 Nov. 2024
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Some, for example, were conned by an unscrupulous insurance agent into changing their Affordable Care Act health plans.Craig Silverman, ProPublica, 31 Oct. 2024
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Because there are five meaningful ways that honest messaging beats dishonest marketing.Drew Gerber, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
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Whereas John Kerry at his convention had struggled to create meaning—no matter how stupid, dishonest, or clichéd—George Bush seemed to be plotting its demise.Yiyun Li, Harper's Magazine, 23 Sep. 2024
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Maybe from the very beginning, the game was too cutthroat, too tawdry, too violent.Brian Moylan, Vulture, 4 Aug. 2024
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The movie charts the rise of Trump’s business career and centers on the former president’s relationship with cutthroat New York City prosecutor Roy Cohn (Jeremy Strong).Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 9 Oct. 2024
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Zoe Saldaña as Rita, a jaded defense attorney for white-collar criminals, is writing her closing argument, asking the jury to exonerate her client, a corrupt bureaucrat accused of pushing his wife off a balcony.Paula Aceves, Vulture, 4 Nov. 2024
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In their telling, the fraud blamed on Dorje Chang was, in fact, pulled off by one of his corrupt former disciples.Joseph Bien-Kahn, Rolling Stone, 3 Nov. 2024
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Blue Water Creek cuts a crooked path through a broad valley, its waters still pristine.Tim Madigan, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Oct. 2024
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This was made possible by his crooked judge father (M. Emmet Walsh, in his final role).Pete Hammond, Deadline, 18 Oct. 2024
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They’re brought back to life by their child, a genderqueer doll called Glen/Glenda, and immediately launch into more depraved violence, kidnapping Jennifer Tilly and Redman (themselves) to transfer their consciousness into their bodies.Rory Doherty, Vulture, 28 June 2024
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Horror films still offer a path to profitability on low budgets that no other genre can claim, which is why even the most squeamish filmmakers should celebrate the remarkable box-office success demonstrated by Damien Leone’s gory saga of the depraved Art the Clown.Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 25 Oct. 2024
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“Unmoral.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unmoral. Accessed 17 Nov. 2024.
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