How do you use Disingenuous in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like artful or distorted, plus the exact meaning.
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.
Using Disingenuous
- The main meaning on this page is: Not honourable; unworthy of honour. | Not ingenuous; not frank or open. | Assuming a pose of naïveté to make a point or for deception.
- Useful related words include: artful, distorted, misrepresented, perverted.
- In the example corpus, disingenuous often appears in combinations such as: being disingenuous, is disingenuous, disingenuous to.
Context around Disingenuous
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 9 middle, 8 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Disingenuous
- In this selection, "disingenuous" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 22.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, little, anything, deliberately, way, messaging and prepackaged stand out and add context to how "disingenuous" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a little disingenuous and excessively and allowed for disingenuous framing. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "disingenuous" sits close to words such as ammonium, asher and attaches, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with disingenuous
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
This is disingenuous nonsense. (4 words)
You can’t talk about me being disingenuous. (8 words)
The focus on critical race theory is particularly disingenuous. (9 words)
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. (42 words)
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. (37 words)
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. (35 words)
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.
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.
Amazingly, Haley and Ron “Don’t Say Gay” DeSantis both participated Thursday in CNN’s town hall, and came off looking more disingenuous, which is really, really hard to do.
Common combinations with disingenuous
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- being disingenuous 16×
- is disingenuous 15×
- disingenuous to 11×
- disingenuous and 10×
- and disingenuous 7×
- be disingenuous 6×
- disingenuous when 6×
- the disingenuous 5×
- or disingenuous 4×
- disingenuous in 4×