How To Use Ingenuous In A Sentence
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But then he got a little disingenuous.
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He and Barton were now called upon for their names, and in return, we were favoured with the liquid and vowelly appellatives, by which our ingenuous and communicative acquaintances were respectively designated.
The Island Home
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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”
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That's as clear an admission as one could hope for that the entire exercise is disingenuous.
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I assure you, I'm neither ingenuous or disingenuous here.
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The Palace manager was being slightly disingenuous.
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Unfortunately, when these rules are broken there is a real danger that an ingenuous error will evolve from self-delusion to fraud.
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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
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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.
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Ryder's familiarity with the camera contributes to his disarmingly ingenuous presence, by turns determined and naive.
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They saw simply a loose, lank youth with tow-colored sunburned hair and a berry-brown, ingenuous face that wore a quizzical, good-natured smile.
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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
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Around them are entwined canonic melodies of disarming ingenuousness.
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This kind of disingenuousness validates dangerous nonsense as legitimate opinion and sets the table for extremism.
Ian Gurvitz: Put Hate Speech in the Crosshairs
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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.)
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His appeal to blasphemy is played in such a way that it seems a disingenuous pretence.
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As such, it's an unnecessary, and disingenuous, attempt to repolarize American literary culture.
I Need a Remedy
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It would, however, be disingenuous to pretend that everything in a reduced world will be comfortable to accept.
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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.
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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
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I must ingenuously confess," he says, "that I have a natural touch of enthusiasm, in my complexion, but such as I thank God was ever governable enough, and have found at length perfectly subduable.
Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions
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The trust of the disinherited was further shattered and disowned by the disingenuous attitude of the state.
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But his ingenuous one-world sentiments are apotheosized into truth by the strength of his melodic gifts (which haven't failed him yet) and a voice that's still sweet and grainy when it needs to be.
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There exist ingenuous bourgeois, of whom it might be said, that they have a "stealable" air.
Les Miserables, Volume III, Marius
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This feels a bit disingenuous.
Times, Sunday Times
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Most of the men seem to be intimidated by her, or at least, contemptuous of her because she's disingenuous.
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That perceived disingenuousness may back to bite Beijing, in two ways.
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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.
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Yet British officials were being somewhat disingenuous in their criticism of the existing Egyptian prison system.
THE GUARDSMEN
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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
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It seems disingenuous to ask for controls in football that would not be welcomed in other forms of business.
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But underneath it, in the emotional and psychological content, the plot is very ingenuous, almost adolescent.
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It seems disingenuous to ask for controls in football that would not be welcomed in other forms of business.
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Also, equating the simplicity of a facially obvious equipment violation to a man holding a bloody knife is disingenuous.
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an ambitious, disingenuous, philistine, and hypocritical operator, who...exemplified...the most disagreeable traits of his time
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All of this has prompted mild accusations of disingenuousness.
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Only the most ingenuous person would believe such a weak excuse!
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Given its stridency of tone, it would be disingenuous to claim that it merely represented a divergent view; it is anything but dispassionately presented.
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Perhaps calling the system a racket is a little disingenuous.
Erica Daigle: Epic Fail
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But to present it as useful in that it has shown up different work practices and rosters is a bit disingenuous.
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Babbing caught him by the "cowlick" that adorned his ingenuous young forehead.
Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine
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She thanked me with ingenuous sweetness for coming home with her.
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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.
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This is at best disingenuous and does not justify a failure to inform and consult people.
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Worldly-wise though she thought herself, Grace was innocent, even ingenuous, for seventeen.
GRACE
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It is not for me to call this last claim disingenuous.
Times, Sunday Times
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Such a claim is disingenuous.
Times, Sunday Times
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Complaints on this score from manufacturers are somewhat disingenuous.
SHOPPED: The Shocking Power of British Supermarkets
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This disingenuous fluff was calculated to excuse the intrusive nature of the exercise.
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The original novel caught the ingenuous babble of its protagonist, naively recording the happy circumstances of her household as her master closed in on her.
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Trivers is a legend in biology, as he is the first ingenuously to confirm.
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Only the most ingenuous person would believe such a weak excuse!
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Boucher's cupidons bear the family traits of their elder sisters, Boucher's nymphs and shepherdesses: a plump litheness; long-lashed wide ingenuous eyes; small light-tipped noses.
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Pete's selection for the show is nothing but cheap entertainment, and it is disingenuous to pretend otherwise.
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It would be disingenuous to claim otherwise.
Times, Sunday Times
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In short, he had as many offices as Scrub in the play, and went through them all with great dexterity; this of surgeon was, perhaps, the only one in which his skill was somewhat deficient, at least that branch of tapping for the dropsy; for he very ingenuously and modestly confessed he had never seen the operation performed, nor was possessed of that chirurgical instrument with which it is performed.
The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon
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This feels a bit disingenuous.
Times, Sunday Times
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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.
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There's something slightly disingenuous about this sentiment.
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He also, cryptically accused some club presidents of being disingenuous.
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UGH … as if the world needs more celebrity fragrances but … I have to say, the idea to team up with Topps to produce and sell this new line of sweet smelling perfumes is ingenuous!
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But it seems disingenuous that he will address these prickly subjects in film and music, but not in person.
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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.
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So to say that we're disingenuous in standing behind the defense is absolutely wrong.
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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
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Molotov disingenuously insisted that any such ventures were “not being approached on political grounds but rather on a commercial basis.”
Eisenhower 1956
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They were charming youths, ingenuous and intelligent at the same time.
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He was well aware that a pair of mild eyes and gentle, ingenuous manners are many a rogue's most valuable asset, and though the bug-hunter talked frankly of his pilgrimages into the hills, there was always a chance that his pursuit was a pose, his zeal counterfeit.
'Me--Smith'
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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
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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
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This ingenuous charm contrasts with Mason's greater worldliness, greater opacity.
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Yet British officials were being somewhat disingenuous in their criticism of the existing Egyptian prison system.
THE GUARDSMEN
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Social morality, vulnerable personality and disingenuous religion were the root causes for Tess tragedy.
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Such a claim is disingenuous.
Times, Sunday Times
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We cannot have such a morally bankrupt, devious, duplicitous, disingenuous and cold-hearted ‘little king’ returned to power this year.
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Every ingenuous person, who is invited to embrace a certain profession, that of the church for example, will desire, preparatorily to his final determination, to examine the evidences and the merits of the religion he embraces, that he may enter upon his profession under the influence of a sincere conviction, and be inspired with that zeal, in singleness of heart, which can alone prevent his vocation from being disgraceful to him.
Thoughts on Man: His Nature, Productions, and Discoveries
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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
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She would have sketches of scenes between Delphica and M. Falarique, with whom the young Germania was cleverly ingenuous indeed -- a seminary Celimene; and between Delphica and M. M.tharete, with whom she was archaeological, ravishingly amoebaean of Homer.
One of Our Conquerors — Volume 4
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But the only way that transparency will work is if salesmen are likely to be caught if they are disingenuous.
Times, Sunday Times
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It has to be said it was rather ingenuous of him to ask a complete stranger to look after his luggage.
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Complaints on this score from manufacturers are somewhat disingenuous.
SHOPPED: The Shocking Power of British Supermarkets
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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.
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But it seems disingenuous that he will address these prickly subjects in film and music, but not in person.
Times, Sunday Times
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This astonishing announcement was doubtless induced by the fact that Patty had been unable to resist his wheedlesome voice and frank, ingenuous manner, and she had indulged in one of her most dimpled smiles.
Patty's Butterfly Days
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This ingenuousness is doubtless dependent upon several factors, such as the primitiveness of the world, the isolation and uniqueness of the cities, the disparateness of cultures and the tenuousness of communication.
Magicians of Gor
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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
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his ingenuous explanation that he would not have burned the church if he had not thought the bishop was in it
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Policy-planning, decision-making and implementation of strategy should be transparent and ingenuous.
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It may these days sound ingenuous, but in my memory the company gave a great deal more genuine consideration to its employees than one can find in the mealy-mouthed mantras of ‘human resources’.
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It'd be dishonest and disingenuous to suggest it was.
The Sun
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It was the high-flying brent who, knowing how the sensitive girl, made keenly conscious at every turn of her defective training and ingenuous ignorance, had often watched their evening flight with longing gaze, now "honked" dismally at the recollection.
The Heritage of Dedlow Marsh and Other Tales
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The Palace manager was being slightly disingenuous.
Times, Sunday Times
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It seems disingenuous to ask for controls in football that would not be welcomed in other forms of business.
Times, Sunday Times
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He praises natural gracefulness in contrast to formal restraint: "an ingenuous freedom is better than constraint".
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There's something slightly disingenuous about this sentiment.
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Somewhat ingenuously, he explains how the crime may be accomplished.
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This feels a bit disingenuous.
Times, Sunday Times
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But then he got a little disingenuous.
Times, Sunday Times
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Nonetheless, it seems more than a little disingenuous.
Times, Sunday Times
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Accordingly, I find her use of the word ‘disingenuous’ just a teeny-weeny bit over the top!
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His confusion and his ingenuous air were new delights to Bertha.
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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.
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To attribute that entirely to Mr Obama would be disingenuous.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Mac – Ivor of Glennaquoich — ranks high in the latter class, as, from your apparent ingenuousness, youth, and unacquaintance with the manners of the Highlands, I should be disposed to place you among the former.
Waverley
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His expression accused her of being disingenuous, but he only said, The horse is hitched and the carriage is waiting.
My Seduction
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To put an adult recommended intake on the front is just disingenuous.
Times, Sunday Times
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Trivers is a legend in biology, as he is the first ingenuously to confirm.
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It seemed to my ingenuous eyes that this fellow was literally handing out cash to patrons as they entered the theater, and it occurred to me that this might be some kind of rebate.
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Most of the men seem to be intimidated by her, or at least, contemptuous of her because she's disingenuous.
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Alternately, discussions in meetings can be muted, disingenuous, or characterized by personalized arguments that can quickly degenerate into conflict.
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In the next three seconds, somewhere in the world, an ingenuous pop star or maybe a dippy actress or a sententious comedian will harangue you about Third World debt.
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It is especially in the large "calvary" and behind the altar that this atmosphere of ingenuousness is felt.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy
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It'd be dishonest and disingenuous to suggest it was.
The Sun
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The press's coverage of health care and accessibility issues is disingenuous at best.
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To say otherwise is disingenuous.
Times, Sunday Times
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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
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Accordingly, if this is a compromise between the intellectualists and the voluntarists, it is a disingenuous one.
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It was as if they still retained more of the ingenuousness of primitive womanhood than she, and thus she "circumnavigated" them, while they, all too self-centred, had barely discovered in which hemisphere her shores were to be found.
Too Old for Dolls A Novel
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The right-hand page shows in childlike handwriting the first lines of his poem “Pastoral”: “The little sparrows/hop ingenuously/about the pavement/quarreling.”
2009 January 28 « One-Minute Book Reviews
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an ingenuous admission of responsibility
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But it's half an hour earlier," he protests, in a manner the interviewer calls "amiably disingenuous".
Media Monkey's Diary
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As this remark, a sort of half interrogatory, was made, Pathfinder looked behind him; and, though the most partial friend could scarcely term his sunburnt and hard features handsome, even Mabel thought his smile attractive, by its simple ingenuousness and the uprightness that beamed in every lineament of his honest countenance.
Pathfinder; or, the inland sea
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Only the most ingenuous person would believe such a weak excuse!
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In that sense, the administration's appeals to free expression and dialogue were the purest disingenuousness.
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Obviously this is mendaciously disingenuous coming from the erstwhile Prince of Darkness who has torpedoed many a career with anonymous briefings to journalists.
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That is what we call disingenuousness little buddy.
Center for American Progress Action Fund
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disingenuously, he asked leading questions about his opponent's work
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You said, ‘an infallible definition is never new revelation’ but isn't that just a mite disingenuous?
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If "that" didn't refer to "violating the laws of nature," you were being disingenuous in dodging the question.
The Memory Hole
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Speaking personally however may I suggest that for European consumption you would be wise to omit details of your national service, which you describe with such evident and ingenuous pride?
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It is doubly disingenuous to claim that problems with security make elections difficult.
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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
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This sort of talk immediately opens itself up to the accusation of disingenuousness and hypocrisy.
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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
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Rossetti said of all his male friends, Hughes was the sweetest and had the most ingenuous nature, the least carking and querulous, and the freest from envy, hatred and malice, and all uncharitableness.
Archive 2008-03-01
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It's incredibly disingenuous to say that they've been "sitting on" or letting Lemmings "stagnate":
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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
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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
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She disingenuously refers to them as ex-felons, which is incorrect since the law holds that once someone is a felon, he remains one.
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Perhaps both are illustrations of strategic disingenuousness - not by the authors, but by their subjects.
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It would be disingenuous to claim otherwise.
Times, Sunday Times
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Baggage you, come or I shall touze you, ingenuously I shall, tom tom or I'le whip it.
Sir Patient Fancy
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Yet it is disingenuous to pretend that there is not a question of individual liberty at stake here.
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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.
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It seems disingenuous to say that'all other sensitive information could be reviewed by a judge.
Times, Sunday Times
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Instead, the justifications offered for the restrictions contained in the amendment to the act have been either disingenuous or simply mendacious.
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It would be disingenuous to claim that this is great art.
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In the next three seconds, somewhere in the world, an ingenuous pop star or maybe a dippy actress or a sententious comedian will harangue you about Third World debt.
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She could have portrayed herself as more scared and disingenuous, than crafty and lying.
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Your correspondent thinks both sides are disingenuous.
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He enters the system ingenuously contemplating the awesome responsibility that underlies lectures on the appropriate use of deadly force.
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He was a lying, deceitful, disingenuous, hopeless, untalented, flatulent, vainglorious, double-dealing, warmongering, blow-hard ...
The Sun
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But then he got a little disingenuous.
Times, Sunday Times
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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
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But something about that smile, full of ingenuous sweetness, sent a shiver of apprehension tingling down his spine.
TREASON KEEP
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I think, Josh, it's plain disingenuous to call COLAs "raises.
Taking on Democrats « PubliCola
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Simonian, ingenuous enough to believe in his own doctrine, charitably paired them off, designing, no doubt, to convert them into monks of his order.
The Magic Skin
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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
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Nonetheless, it seems more than a little disingenuous.
Times, Sunday Times
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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”
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Reid, Pelosi et al have been unbelievably disingenuous in debating the issues.
Matthew Yglesias » Obama at the House GOP Retreat
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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
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It is disingenuous to pretend that any other analysis is tenable.
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Am I wrong to suggest that attaching arguments to me that I did not make in the least is a disingenuous tactic?
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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
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The height of abilities is to have volto sciolto and pensieri stretti; that is, a frank, open, and ingenuous exterior, with a prudent interior; to be upon your own guard, and yet, by a seeming natural openness, to put people off theirs.
Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman
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But isn't it all just a tiny bit disingenuous?
Times, Sunday Times
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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
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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
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It had a sly, ingenuous surface, the charming and amusing thoughts of a group of seven-year-olds ruminating on sex, money, school, race, love, mum and dad, the future and each other.
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Only the most ingenuous person would believe such a weak excuse!
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There's something slightly disingenuous about this sentiment.
Times, Sunday Times
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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.
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Such a claim is disingenuous.
Times, Sunday Times
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I think he is being a bit disingenuous here.
Times, Sunday Times
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But isn't it all just a tiny bit disingenuous?
Times, Sunday Times
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To blame everything on what he "inherited" is also disingenuous.
How's Obama doing?
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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.
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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.
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Nevertheless, it would be disingenuous to suggest that foraging is always straight - forward and easy.
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It is not for me to call this last claim disingenuous.
Times, Sunday Times
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By association, the current designer is handicapped by the fact that men look behind any cultural invention for irrelevant, ingenuous, or threatening forces.
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The trust of the disinherited was further shattered and disowned by the disingenuous attitude of the state.
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‘Well I can clear that one up for you - no, he definitely isn't,’ I replied disingenuously, but she didn't seem convinced.
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It is a craven, disingenuous, and destructive canard, antithetical to interracial harmony and black excellence - and racist besides.
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He seemed too ingenuous for a reporter.
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It is ingenuous to suppose that money did not play a part in his decision.
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To single out Moore in an age of mind-numbing folksiness in politics is disingenuous.
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Mr. Lane, who started out in journalism helping compile Forbes magazine's billionaire scorecards, is an ingenuous narrator who likes to remind the reader that he was essentially a schlump living in a fourth-floor walkup while his glossies burnished the egos and tweaked the appetites of Wall Street's new wildcatters.
Published and Perished
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-- Come hither, why, you refractory Baggage you, come or I shall touze you, ingenuously I shall; tom, tom, or I'll whip it.
The Works of Aphra Behn Volume IV.
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Englishmen and matrons, and thrill societies with their winsome ingenuousness; and who sometimes when unguarded meet an artful serenader, that is a cloaked bandit, and is provoked by their performances, and knows anthropologically the nature behind the devious show; a sciential rascal; as little to be excluded from our modern circles as Eve's own old deuce from Eden's garden whereupon, opportunity inviting, both the fool and the cunning, the pure donkey princess of insular eulogy, and the sham one, are in a perilous pass.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith
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They are compulsory charges - thus making the advertised cost of the flights disingenuous to say the least, misrepresentation at worst.
Times, Sunday Times
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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
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Makers throughout the day will show their homebrew robots, human powered submarines, ingenuous gizmos, a DIY laser cutter, a Kraftwerk-inspired electroluminescent prototype dress and lots more of the extraordinary things people build when they are doing it for the joy of creating.
Boing Boing
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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
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It is glib and disingenuous to say that we are all consumers exercising choices, when most of the options are essentially similar.