Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The character of being disingenuous; want of candor.
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- noun The state or quality of being
disingenuous .
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- noun the quality of being disingenuous and lacking candor
Etymologies
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Examples
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That is what we call disingenuousness little buddy.
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That is what we call disingenuousness little buddy.
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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.
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The apparent disingenuousness is most evident in the fund’s ardent opposition to gay marriage.
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The apparent disingenuousness is most evident in the fund’s ardent opposition to gay marriage.
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The apparent disingenuousness is most evident in the fund’s ardent opposition to gay marriage.
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The apparent disingenuousness is most evident in the fund’s ardent opposition to gay marriage.
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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 2007
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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 2007
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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 Ian Gurvitz 2011
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