Honesty is preferable as a course of action because it tends to work out best in the end.

(law) The inherent power, incident to sovereignty, of a state to regulate and exercise reasonable control over matters of public health, public morals, public safety, and in general, all things relating to the general welfare.

Alternative spelling of palace politics

(idiomatic) The relationships and interactions of top-level officials, advisors and other powerbrokers within a government, especially as involving internal rivalry and intrigue.

(vulgar, idiomatic) Something inherently bad cannot be improved.

(skateboarding) A trick where the skateboarder skates over a bent pole.

plural of polo shirt

The pollution of soil, for example by sewage or toxic chemicals.

(US politics, chiefly historical) A local political organization or individual politician that controls a large number of personal votes and can therefore exert political influence, and is therefore often viewed as scandalous.

(biology) One of the small cells that are by-products of the meiosis that forms an egg.