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, 1993their 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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