creative

creative
   disputatious or dishonest
   Thus for churchmen creative conflict is a bitter doctrinal argument. For a businessman creative accounting is false bookkeeping:
    They give you a lot of crap about 'creative freedom' but all they're really talking about is 'creative bookkeeping'. (B. Forbes, 1989)
   Creative tension means violent disagreement:
    He denied that... relations were strained between Lord King and Sir Colin but conceded there had been 'creative tension' between two able executives. (Daily Telegraph, 14 January, 1993 — their company, British Airways, had been accused of unethical behaviour towards a competitor)
   Creative freedom for artists and academics can mean anything they want it to, other than something conventional.

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