How To Use Disingenuous In A Sentence

But then he got a little disingenuous. Times, Sunday Times
The Israelis already possess them, operating disingenuously and outside international norms again, an exceptionalism granted by the United States’ favor andmight. The Volokh Conspiracy » Pro-Palestinian “Peace Activists”
That's as clear an admission as one could hope for that the entire exercise is disingenuous.
I assure you, I'm neither ingenuous or disingenuous here.
The Palace manager was being slightly disingenuous. Times, Sunday Times

But let's remember this: Bowman is a master dissembler and is prone to making disingenuous comments at times such as these; comments designed to deflect any suspicions that he may have had a role in this decision. Coach Savard, we hardly knew you
Perhaps it's his glaring vanity - it is surely disingenuous for a man in his sixties to sport such a pompadour and pretend that he doesn't want it noticed.
This new dispensation is likely to strike many of us as chaotic -- Grossman is being disingenuous when he writes that "None of this is good or bad," since he surely knows most of his readers judge it to be bad indeed -- especially those of us who want some of those "conventional criteria for literary value" to survive. Principles of Literary Criticism
This kind of disingenuousness validates dangerous nonsense as legitimate opinion and sets the table for extremism. Ian Gurvitz: Put Hate Speech in the Crosshairs
These were so continuously misleading and disingenuous that the lawyer politicaster who played such a rôle at Paris seemed despicable to the soldiery, and "rogue of a lawyer" was almost synonymous to the military mind with place-holder and civil ruler. The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. I. (of IV.)
His appeal to blasphemy is played in such a way that it seems a disingenuous pretence.
As such, it's an unnecessary, and disingenuous, attempt to repolarize American literary culture. I Need a Remedy
It would, however, be disingenuous to pretend that everything in a reduced world will be comfortable to accept.
Either way, if the definition of victory i the same for both policies, then to categorize the quick policy as "loosing" is a bit disingenuous. McCain releases debut general election ad
A lot of us don't get a lot out of narrow-minded, self-righteous, paranoia coupled with obviously disingenuous yatter about being the party of small government and fiscal conservatism – eight years of George Bush made those lies too obvious to miss. 'Regular guy' Thune is hot commodity in GOP circles
The trust of the disinherited was further shattered and disowned by the disingenuous attitude of the state.
This feels a bit disingenuous. Times, Sunday Times
Most of the men seem to be intimidated by her, or at least, contemptuous of her because she's disingenuous.
That perceived disingenuousness may back to bite Beijing, in two ways.
Filmmakers like Bruno Dumont seem to possess an acuteness that allows them to disingenuously suggest the multifarious nature of the beauty and humour that comprise life.
Yet British officials were being somewhat disingenuous in their criticism of the existing Egyptian prison system. THE GUARDSMEN
He rather belabors the point on those occasions when Tom experiences empathy for others an emotion which he describes as feeling sorry for himself while pretending to be someone else, and really, Portman is being more than a little disingenuous when a kid whose vocabulary includes the word 'callipygian' can't put a name to empathy when he experiences it. King Dork by Frank Portman
It seems disingenuous to ask for controls in football that would not be welcomed in other forms of business. Times, Sunday Times
It seems disingenuous to ask for controls in football that would not be welcomed in other forms of business. Times, Sunday Times
Also, equating the simplicity of a facially obvious equipment violation to a man holding a bloody knife is disingenuous. The Volokh Conspiracy » When a Police Officer Pulls Over a Law Student
an ambitious, disingenuous, philistine, and hypocritical operator, who...exemplified...the most disagreeable traits of his time
All of this has prompted mild accusations of disingenuousness.
Given its stridency of tone, it would be disingenuous to claim that it merely represented a divergent view; it is anything but dispassionately presented.
Perhaps calling the system a racket is a little disingenuous. Erica Daigle: Epic Fail
But to present it as useful in that it has shown up different work practices and rosters is a bit disingenuous.
Any argument about its fate that digresses from this fact threatens to dissolve into the putrid river of disingenuous excuses the administration keeps spewing forth to drown the truth.
This is at best disingenuous and does not justify a failure to inform and consult people.
It is not for me to call this last claim disingenuous. Times, Sunday Times
Such a claim is disingenuous. Times, Sunday Times
Complaints on this score from manufacturers are somewhat disingenuous. SHOPPED: The Shocking Power of British Supermarkets
This disingenuous fluff was calculated to excuse the intrusive nature of the exercise.
Pete's selection for the show is nothing but cheap entertainment, and it is disingenuous to pretend otherwise.
It would be disingenuous to claim otherwise. Times, Sunday Times
This feels a bit disingenuous. Times, Sunday Times
Ms. McCreary says candidates consistently damage their reputations by sending cover letters that disingenuously claim a specific position at the company is their dream job.
There's something slightly disingenuous about this sentiment. Times, Sunday Times
He also, cryptically accused some club presidents of being disingenuous.
But it seems disingenuous that he will address these prickly subjects in film and music, but not in person. Times, Sunday Times
Bloom, a pugnacious professor, says that he reads to clear his mind of cant and for self-improvement, not to influence others, which seems somewhat disingenuous given the subject of his book.
So to say that we're disingenuous in standing behind the defense is absolutely wrong.
But it is rude and disingenuous for you to block the activities of those of us who expect to stick around when we try to do something about the poop we might happen to perceive nearing the air impeller. Tom McIntyre Explains His Picks for our 2009 Hunting and Fishing Heroes and Villians Face-Off
Molotov disingenuously insisted that any such ventures were “not being approached on political grounds but rather on a commercial basis.” Eisenhower 1956
Everyone understands politicians are under pressure to disingenuously parrot the party line, but unlike lawyers, their dissembling is never ethically required. The Volokh Conspiracy » Lawyers, Treason, and Deception: A Response to Andrew McCarthy
Any PR schpeel that tries to pretend that this motion control bonanza is about innovation and intuitive accessibility and not just about duplicating Nintendo's "economic miracle" is nothing more than disingenuous lip service. In Defense Of The Classic Controller
Yet British officials were being somewhat disingenuous in their criticism of the existing Egyptian prison system. THE GUARDSMEN
Social morality, vulnerable personality and disingenuous religion were the root causes for Tess tragedy.
Such a claim is disingenuous. Times, Sunday Times
We cannot have such a morally bankrupt, devious, duplicitous, disingenuous and cold-hearted ‘little king’ returned to power this year.
The devaluing is disingenuous, this identification of singular purpose and import, this assertion that prose and plot and all other textual features are of no consequence, unravelling to a refusal to recognise any purpose or import other than pedagogic consolation. Archive 2009-07-01
But the only way that transparency will work is if salesmen are likely to be caught if they are disingenuous. Times, Sunday Times
Complaints on this score from manufacturers are somewhat disingenuous. SHOPPED: The Shocking Power of British Supermarkets
To take a conscious decision to leave the currency risk unhedged is one thing, but to do nothing and then complain when things go wrong is disingenuous.
But it seems disingenuous that he will address these prickly subjects in film and music, but not in person. Times, Sunday Times
It was an accessory to Enron, a purveyor of tainted stock "research" to telecom and dot-com investors, a minter of disingenuous off-balance-sheet vehicles to hold massive bets on mortgage derivatives. Long Live the Financial Supermarket
It'd be dishonest and disingenuous to suggest it was. The Sun
The Palace manager was being slightly disingenuous. Times, Sunday Times
It seems disingenuous to ask for controls in football that would not be welcomed in other forms of business. Times, Sunday Times
There's something slightly disingenuous about this sentiment. Times, Sunday Times
This feels a bit disingenuous. Times, Sunday Times
But then he got a little disingenuous. Times, Sunday Times
Nonetheless, it seems more than a little disingenuous. Times, Sunday Times
Accordingly, I find her use of the word ‘disingenuous’ just a teeny-weeny bit over the top!
The Anglican Consultative Council has issued a statement on the divestment controversy which achieves a truly egregious conflation of sanctimoniousness, disingenuousness and sheer moral humbug.
To attribute that entirely to Mr Obama would be disingenuous.
Just as Formula One runs both drivers 'and constructors' championships, so the Premier League 2011-2012 should see the inaugural season of The Plonkership, in which managers would receive points for witlessness, disingenuousness and babyishness displayed during everything from media outings to interactions with fourth officials. It's tight at the top of The Plonkership
She did not mention his transformation, and was disingenuous enough to agree with the King that the Prince had behaved most unfilially in departing without permission. In Brief Authority
How ironic that the disingenuous free speech supporters have once again breached our site to restrict alternate views on issues of political importance … Site Down Again : Law is Cool
As the holiday season approaches, there are a million UAW pensioners living in fear right now because pontificating, sanctimonious, disingenuous creeps like Richard Shelby are on TV preaching that they must give up the retirement funds they spent a lifetime contributing to because they make Detroit "uncompetitive" with Japanese automakers in his state. Jane Hamsher: Heckuva Bailout: Citi and AIG Will Still Pay Hundreds Of Millions In Sports Sponsorship
His expression accused her of being disingenuous, but he only said, The horse is hitched and the carriage is waiting. My Seduction
To put an adult recommended intake on the front is just disingenuous. Times, Sunday Times
Most of the men seem to be intimidated by her, or at least, contemptuous of her because she's disingenuous.
Alternately, discussions in meetings can be muted, disingenuous, or characterized by personalized arguments that can quickly degenerate into conflict.
It'd be dishonest and disingenuous to suggest it was. The Sun
The press's coverage of health care and accessibility issues is disingenuous at best.
To say otherwise is disingenuous. Times, Sunday Times
Disingenuous appeals of "trust me" on the pages of the Washington Post aren't going to stop what Panetta calls "recrimination" that will supposedly cause the brave men and women of the CIA to "pay a price. Frank Naif: CIA Director Panetta: Reform Suffers for Bush Apparatchiks and Spy Chiefs
Accordingly, if this is a compromise between the intellectualists and the voluntarists, it is a disingenuous one.
But it's half an hour earlier," he protests, in a manner the interviewer calls "amiably disingenuous". Media Monkey's Diary
In that sense, the administration's appeals to free expression and dialogue were the purest disingenuousness.
Obviously this is mendaciously disingenuous coming from the erstwhile Prince of Darkness who has torpedoed many a career with anonymous briefings to journalists.
That is what we call disingenuousness little buddy. Center for American Progress Action Fund
disingenuously, he asked leading questions about his opponent's work
You said, ‘an infallible definition is never new revelation’ but isn't that just a mite disingenuous?
If "that" didn't refer to "violating the laws of nature," you were being disingenuous in dodging the question. The Memory Hole
It is doubly disingenuous to claim that problems with security make elections difficult.
Look, I know it's a show, and I appreciate that this is the freakiest cycle of freaks we've had yet (given industry standards), but I don't think I can recall a more disingenuous moment from Tyra than this. Little people, big deal
This sort of talk immediately opens itself up to the accusation of disingenuousness and hypocrisy.
Not only do these comments "not quite convict him of being a holocaust denier" as you rather disingenuously put it they show quite the opposite, if anything he is a "holocaust affirmer". Another 'ultra-traditionalist' Catholic leader says stupid things about the Holocaust | RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com
It's incredibly disingenuous to say that they've been "sitting on" or letting Lemmings "stagnate": Freshnews.org - most clicked links
This lacks integrity, depth and rigour, is unfair to theologians who would not be swayed by lacklustre science (as a one-way ticket) and is disingenuous to religious persons who would (unknowingly) hear only a one-sided view of ˜science 'in Christian student groups. The Memory Hole
It also came out that she was one of the 20 candidates "targeted" for removal by Sarah Palin, the term targeted being literal as Palin had a campaign map with bull's eyes over the targeted districts and then cross hairs over the actual candidates pictures; her campaign's later assertion on the Tammy Bruce show Monday, January 10, 2011 that these were "surveyor" symbols and that the graphic was "farmed out" and they didn't see them as "crosshairs" is so disingenuous coming from a campaign of a woman who shoots wolves from a plane using a what?... rifle, is simply beyond the pale. Charles Karel Bouley: Tucson: In the Blame Game, We All Lose
She disingenuously refers to them as ex-felons, which is incorrect since the law holds that once someone is a felon, he remains one.
Perhaps both are illustrations of strategic disingenuousness - not by the authors, but by their subjects.
It would be disingenuous to claim otherwise. Times, Sunday Times
Yet it is disingenuous to pretend that there is not a question of individual liberty at stake here.
Isabella declares to be concerned only about helping her brother and shows herself to be a good actress, not making Angelo suspicious that she is disingenuous and plays a cagey game to trap him.
It seems disingenuous to say that'all other sensitive information could be reviewed by a judge. Times, Sunday Times
Instead, the justifications offered for the restrictions contained in the amendment to the act have been either disingenuous or simply mendacious.
It would be disingenuous to claim that this is great art.
She could have portrayed herself as more scared and disingenuous, than crafty and lying.
Your correspondent thinks both sides are disingenuous.
He was a lying, deceitful, disingenuous, hopeless, untalented, flatulent, vainglorious, double-dealing, warmongering, blow-hard ... The Sun
But then he got a little disingenuous. Times, Sunday Times
There may have been a hiatus in homegrown productions but it would be disingenuous to say that the nation lost its interest in dancing in the interim. Times, Sunday Times
I think, Josh, it's plain disingenuous to call COLAs "raises. Taking on Democrats « PubliCola
But what I despise is the disingenuous politician who uses the war as a partisan front for his or his party’s own agenda. 2008 June 25 « Unambiguously Ambidextrous
Nonetheless, it seems more than a little disingenuous. Times, Sunday Times
The Israelis already possess them, operating disingenuously and outside international norms (again, an exceptionalism granted by the United States’ favor andmight). The Volokh Conspiracy » Pro-Palestinian “Peace Activists”
Reid, Pelosi et al have been unbelievably disingenuous in debating the issues. Matthew Yglesias » Obama at the House GOP Retreat
True liberals contend that conservatives not only have it wrong, but deliberately and disingenuously so, in order to actually deny opportunity to many other Americans. Alec Baldwin: A Few Words About Barbara Boxer
It is disingenuous to pretend that any other analysis is tenable.
Am I wrong to suggest that attaching arguments to me that I did not make in the least is a disingenuous tactic? Sex and the single Marvel super heroine | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment
In GOOey Osborne's case with some hilarious-if-it-wasn't-so-serious disingenuous cover up story concocted to explain how the Tory's would be Chancellor was funded to the tune of £500,000 by various high falluting city interests, without feeling that this was in any way a declarable interest. Iain Dale: Not Crowing Over Wendy Alexander
But isn't it all just a tiny bit disingenuous? Times, Sunday Times
KG: When they said in their press release that Medium couldbe a nice offspring of Ghost Whisperer, I thought thatwas disingenuous and misrepresentative certainly, in the least. Buzzine » ‘Hank’ Interviews
Sometimes disingenuous is used as a synonym for naive, as if the dis - prefix functioned as an intensive (as it does in certain words like disannul) rather than as a negative element. Norman Horowitz: Insincere, Cynical and Calculating
There's something slightly disingenuous about this sentiment. Times, Sunday Times
The play's title is too literal a description of its subject matter, and that lack of theatrical imagination shows up in the general emotional disingenuousness of the piece.
Such a claim is disingenuous. Times, Sunday Times
I think he is being a bit disingenuous here. Times, Sunday Times
But isn't it all just a tiny bit disingenuous? Times, Sunday Times
To blame everything on what he "inherited" is also disingenuous. How's Obama doing?
Behind his affable, bluff demeanour and disingenuous screen image, one senses he is the master of all he surveys, not quite the lone reporter, rather a general marshalling an army of researchers.
If one sees politics as nothing but the organized pursuit of self-interest, then all talk of a public purpose is bound to appear disingenuous or duplicitous.
Nevertheless, it would be disingenuous to suggest that foraging is always straight - forward and easy.
It is not for me to call this last claim disingenuous. Times, Sunday Times
The trust of the disinherited was further shattered and disowned by the disingenuous attitude of the state.
‘Well I can clear that one up for you - no, he definitely isn't,’ I replied disingenuously, but she didn't seem convinced.
It is a craven, disingenuous, and destructive canard, antithetical to interracial harmony and black excellence - and racist besides.
To single out Moore in an age of mind-numbing folksiness in politics is disingenuous.
They are compulsory charges - thus making the advertised cost of the flights disingenuous to say the least, misrepresentation at worst. Times, Sunday Times
This was disingenuous, for he knew well that popular enthusiasm is no less sincere for being relatively short-lived. REBELS AND REDCOATS: The American Revolutionary War
In recent days, each side has been describing the other in increasingly vitriolic terms, bandying around words such as "disingenuous" and "lying" in private. Phone hacking: two News of the World journalists arrested
It is glib and disingenuous to say that we are all consumers exercising choices, when most of the options are essentially similar.
It'd be dishonest and disingenuous to suggest it was. The Sun
It would be disingenuous to claim that this is great art.
It would be disingenuous to deny that the programme makes a statement, but I don't think people should jump to the conclusion that there is a disenchantment with traditional theatre.
So your sneering is disingenuous, because not even you’re going to argue that the federal government could recreate what takes place in the DC suburbs on a national level. Matthew Yglesias » Bob McDonnell To Attempt First Non-Horrible SOTU Response in American History
It would be disingenuous on our part to pretend ignorance of our book's impact, both in sales and controversy.
Mr. Lister's claim that other schools on the Island have experienced similar situations is also disingenuous.
We are therefore indebted to materialism, to positivism, to naturalism for this unhealthy and often disingenuous reflowering of religious exaltation. Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic
This is defeatist nonsense, not to mention entirely disingenuous, anyway.
a disingenuous excuse
Critics have railed against bouts of apparent disingenuousness, self-absorption and the singer's lupine cries of a last chapter.
It would be disingenuous of me to claim I had never seen it.
‘Free choice’ is the central value of the right-to-work movement, whether the antiunionists wield it disingenuously or not.
Maybe he needs to find a dictionary and look up the word disingenuous next. NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias
It may be that a better word than "unauthentic" would be "disingenuous". Authentic Learning Environments « open thinking
Likewise, the promotion of the controversy by national manufacturers' associations has been calculating and disingenuous.
That may be true, but it is a slightly disingenuous point. Times, Sunday Times
It was disingenuous of her to claim she had no financial interest in the case.
But it seems disingenuous that he will address these prickly subjects in film and music, but not in person. Times, Sunday Times
It would be disingenuous to claim otherwise. Times, Sunday Times
That may be true, but it is a slightly disingenuous point. Times, Sunday Times
Yet British officials were being somewhat disingenuous in their criticism of the existing Egyptian prison system. THE GUARDSMEN
You are being disingenuous if you claim to dislike grade separated because of the claimed cost-ineffectiveness, and then ignore the cost ineffectiveness of surface rail compared to rubber-tyred surface transit. Canada Line delivers a smooth ride « Stephen Rees's blog
There are places in this country whose media outlets are disingenuously labeled with different names but owned by one corporation thousands of miles away.
That I might be one day disingenuous, inauthentic, think too much of myself, imagine that I know something more than somebody else knows and get run away - let this thing run away with me.
Social morality, vulnerable personality and disingenuous religion were the root causes for Tess tragedy.
To say otherwise is disingenuous. Times, Sunday Times
Your request is called "framing the debate", a disingenuous trick to trap participants in the discussion into a fallaciously and biasedly framed argument they cannot win. Open Letter to the Council: Take the Same Damn Risk You’re Asking Us To Take « PubliCola
If this be thought to be disingenuously restrictive, an attempt to define away the opposition, then consider the alternative.
To put an adult recommended intake on the front is just disingenuous. Times, Sunday Times
Nor is it totally incomprehensible that some people find Britney's coyness in interviews disingenuous.
So aren't the protestations of terminal scruffiness and aw-shucks fallibility just a little disingenuous?
It was disingenuous of her to claim she had no financial interest in the case.
That may be true, but it is a slightly disingenuous point. Times, Sunday Times
Oliver Stone, always the ne plus ultra of disingenuousness, is by Bugliosi’s reckoning guilty of a “cultural crime” committed through a thousand manipulations, among them the use of a smoke machine to generate a puff of rifle smoke from the Grassy Knoll that JFK presents as being visible to people in Dealey Plaza. A Knoll of One’s Own
Use the word, "dissemble" or "disingenuous," if you will, but let's call it what it really is. Tom D'Antoni: Sen. Clinton's Own Religious Cult Includes Brownback, Santorum
As a liberal and a progressive I am angry about the current state of affairs that leaves us with what I can only describe as a disingenuously ineffective non-solution to the dramatic state of economic affairs that tens of millions of Americans now find themselves in: namely, chronically un- or under-employed. Lance Simmens: Mr. President, It's Up to You
But to automatically cry "oh, get a sense of humor" when someone points out disrespect, snark, or nastiness is disingenuous and fundamentally unkind.
To say otherwise is disingenuous. Times, Sunday Times
They are compulsory charges - thus making the advertised cost of the flights disingenuous to say the least, misrepresentation at worst. Times, Sunday Times
We go on letting these disingenuous bleeding heart scuzzballs get away with it.
He glissaded from, the austere altitudes of his self-respect, and his next words were already disingenuous. Love and Mr Lewisham
It seems disingenuous to say that'all other sensitive information could be reviewed by a judge. Times, Sunday Times
Add me to The Galloping Beaver and their “Die Margaret Thatcher” friends, as well as POGGE and their inability to perceive the disingenuous hypocrisy behind Jack Layton and his politically motivated rhetoric, and Bastard Logic simply because he knows he wallows in deluded progressivist fantasy and is entirely comfortable with that. 2008 March 09 « Unambiguously Ambidextrous
Nonetheless, it seems more than a little disingenuous. Times, Sunday Times
While all of these arguments contain a kernel of truth, close analysis shows that they are disingenuous at best and downright misleading at worst.
To suggest that, in the recent past, cities were widely perceived otherwise - as a drain on resources - is disingenuous, to say the least.
You must not think much of your argument if you think that this degree of disingenuousness is required to support it. Matthew Yglesias » Playoffs!
Complaints on this score from manufacturers are somewhat disingenuous. SHOPPED: The Shocking Power of British Supermarkets
It reminds us of McSweeney's for its effortless appearance, although this is disingenuous, as both are of course just as contrived as the glossiest of fashion quarterlies.
The Palace manager was being slightly disingenuous. Times, Sunday Times
Makower drills down into consumers 'complex (and often hypocritical) attitudes on buying green, and the dangers of "greenwashing," a term levied on companies viewed as disingenuous in creating a green image. GreenBiz.com Green Business News
You can keep your distance, you can keep your head beneath the parapet - but surely it's disingenuous to insinuate that bloggers don't do it, at least in part, for adulation, audience or exhibitionism.
He disingenuously remarked that he knew nothing about strategy.
In an alternative title chase, managers could receive points for witlessness, disingenuousness and babyishness It's tight at the top of The Plonkership
The entire process is intellectually disingenuous from the outset. Michael Brenner: HuffPost Review: Obama's Wars
It would be disingenuous to call The Family Fang straightforward, but the novel isn't fantastical, non-literal, fabulistic, etc., as many of your short stories have been.
There was no community, for all the disingenuous Liberal Council blithered on about it. Another Letter Another Rejection
There may have been a hiatus in homegrown productions but it would be disingenuous to say that the nation lost its interest in dancing in the interim. Times, Sunday Times
No historian has a privileged antenna to the past, and it would be disingenuous to claim that we can ventriloquize for these women in the absence of their own voices and other pieces of their lives. Caesars’ Wives
But isn't it all just a tiny bit disingenuous? Times, Sunday Times
Since Obama went to Harvard (and generally seems to have paid attention in school), I'm certain he knows the definitions of "disingenuously", "discourse" and "divisive. Christians Aren't Going Away and Neither Are Gays

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