How To Use Ingenuousness In A Sentence
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That is what we call disingenuousness little buddy.
Center for American Progress Action Fund
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The apparent disingenuousness is most evident in the fund’s ardent opposition to gay marriage.
Constitutional Issues
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When the baron's wife resurfaces in the text to greet the king who is de passage, she again drips with disingenuousness.
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All the materials with which his memory is crowded become classified, orderly, harmonious, and undergo that compulsory idealization which is the result of a childlike perception, that is to say, of a perception that is keen, magical by force of ingenuousness.
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 4
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In an alternative title chase, managers could receive points for witlessness, disingenuousness and babyishness
It's tight at the top of The Plonkership
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Edgar, who in this distress, read an ingenuousness of nature that counterpoised its romantic enthusiasm, felt for the young man, and taking
Camilla
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You must not think much of your argument if you think that this degree of disingenuousness is required to support it.
Matthew Yglesias » Playoffs!
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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
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Critics have railed against bouts of apparent disingenuousness, self-absorption and the singer's lupine cries of a last chapter.
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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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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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Perhaps both are illustrations of strategic disingenuousness - not by the authors, but by their subjects.
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This sort of talk immediately opens itself up to the accusation of disingenuousness and hypocrisy.
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Around them are entwined canonic melodies of disarming ingenuousness.
Times, Sunday Times
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In that sense, the administration's appeals to free expression and dialogue were the purest disingenuousness.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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All of this has prompted mild accusations of disingenuousness.
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That perceived disingenuousness may back to bite Beijing, in two ways.
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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