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insincere — especially when withholding knowledge and pretending to be sincere- Mr Elliot is evidently a disingenuous, artificial, worldly man, who has never had any better principle to guide him than selfishness.Jane Austen -- Persuasion
- It is disingenuous to call it an "Education" bill as it did nothing to aid education.
- It's disingenuous to exaggerate her position and then prove the exaggerated position to be unreasonable.
- It would be disingenuous to speak of mourning, but all the same, for a while the expression in Hans Castorp's eyes was more pensive than usual.Thomas Mann -- The Magic Mountain
- Still she was the first to speak; since Eau-douce could utter naught that would be disingenuous, or that would pain his friend.James Fenimore Cooper -- The Pathfinder
- This objection is disingenuous.Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, & John Jay -- The Federalist Papers — Modern English Edition 2
- I was still hugging the boy, so he couldn't see the disingenuous look on my youthful face.Bryan Stevenson -- Just Mercy
- Mr Elliot is evidently a disingenuous, artificial, worldly man, who has never had any better principle to guide him than selfishness.Jane Austen -- Persuasion
- Where before it would just be indulgent, undeserved, disingenuous emotion.Gillian Flynn -- Gone Girl
- These things, she felt, were not to be passed around like disingenuous party favors.Alice Sebold -- The Lovely Bones
- Disingenuousness and double dealing seemed to meet him at every turn.Jane Austen -- Emma
- CUSINS [disingenuously] Well—er—well, possibly, as a collector of religions— LOMAX [cunningly] Not as a drummer, though, you know.George Bernard Shaw -- Major Barbara
- Do not be disingenuous with me, Colonel Graff.Orson Scott Card -- Ender's Game
- But the phrase on the priest's lips was disingenuous for he knew that a priest should not speak lightly on that theme.James Joyce -- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
- Dishonorable, disingenuous, and shameful.Khaled Hosseini -- A Thousand Splendid Suns
- The Major accused him of disingenuousness, and was roughly right, but only roughly.E.M. Forster -- A Passage to India
- Mae looked into his eyes for signs of disingenuousness, given there was no rational person who would have declined an invitation to work here.Dave Eggers -- The Circle
- Woman is perfidious and disingenuous.Victor Hugo -- Les Miserables
- The challenge of suppressing cheaters who performed their dastardly deeds so openly and disingenuously and with so much intellectual relish was immense.Pat Conroy -- The Water is Wide
- John Alexander was a splendid looking cadet, erect and arrogant, with an instinct for survival in the Corps that was as uncanny as it was disingenuous.Pat Conroy -- The Lords of Discipline
(Editor's note: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means state or degree of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.)
(Editor's note: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means state or degree of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.)
(Editor's note: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means state or degree of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.)