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Disingenuous

Disingenuous | Disingenuously

Disingenuous meaning

Not honourable; unworthy of honour. | Not ingenuous; not frank or open. | Assuming a pose of naïveté to make a point or for deception.

Example sentences (20)

And it certainly doesn’t make them dishonest or disingenuous.

Blocked by this correct refusal, the “pack” huddled together to come up with a disingenuous way to chase the legislators away.

Contributing to the dysfunction, I too perceive a coordinated deployment of disingenuous messaging from the BPD and city staff.

Due to its estimated value system, its original price can seem a little disingenuous and excessively high.

If there’s anything disingenuous in the music, we change it or just scrap the idea entirely,” explained Kahn of their creative process.

In particular, the ADL argument that in speaking of the impact of illegal immigration on American democracy, Carlson was advocating for a “great replacement theory” was disingenuous.

Logging always sounds and looks better when shrouded in a disingenuous, prepackaged timber-industry narrative that creates confusion and indifference in the hunting community, and a real sense of pride and manliness in the governor’s office.

Matt Clark, manager of engineering projects at Great River Energy, thinks activists are being disingenuous because they can’t link bad air quality over North to HERC, and shutting it down wouldn’t make much of a difference.

MPs said he was "deliberately disingenuous" in trying to reframe his statements - and attempting to come up with excuses to justify the parties.

Nearly 24 hours after the decision, Owens’ Twitter fingers have been banging out tweet after tweet with disingenuous musings of false equivalences in an effort to prove her point that affirmative action is bad.

Per usual, McDonough hid behind the disingenuous claim that his hands are tied by Congress.

Rushing through Miep’s life for a truncated movie would’ve allowed for disingenuous framing.

That Texas’s government was suddenly uninterested in calling fetal life a person when it was unrelated to an abortion law wouldn’t surprise writer Gabrielle Blair, who believes most anti-abortion politicians are disingenuous.

The focus on critical race theory is particularly disingenuous.

They probably thought there was some kind of understanding that it was a disingenuous ploy to "energize the base" and keep up their belief in the infallibility of Donald Trump.

This felt slow and a little disjointed, I get the general story of Belair and Charlotte being disingenuous and trying to one up each other but I question the necessity of this one.

This is disingenuous nonsense.

Thus the disingenuous motion by Furry and seconded by Chong to “censure” Cheryl Massaro.

TikTok has been trying to distance itself from its Chinese origins, but that narrative was rendered disingenuous after the Wall Street Journal reported that China would oppose any U.S. attempts to force ByteDance to sell the app just before the hearing.

You can’t talk about me being disingenuous.