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disingenuous
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  • I smiled frankly and disingenuously.†  (source)
  • Where before it would just be indulgent, undeserved, disingenuous emotion.†  (source)
  • These things, she felt, were not to be passed around like disingenuous party favors.†  (source)
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  • This isn't a book about the cost of chewing gum versus campaign spending per se, or about disingenuous real-estate agents, or the impact of legalized abortion on crime.†  (source)
  • The program, in the court's opinion, was "somewhat disingenuously called 'the safety award system:" IBP's attitude toward worker safety was hardly unique in the industry, according to Edward Murphy's testimony before Congress in 1992.†  (source)
  • Mae looked into his eyes for signs of disingenuousness, given there was no rational person who would have declined an invitation to work here.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
  • Still, his too obvious display of learning and the disingenuous manner in which he used the power of his name had won him less affection than he deserved.†  (source)
  • Ironically, these were all the things that my father forever wanted me to consider, and to what as a teenager I had disingenuously cried, "What about love?"†  (source)
  • The Major accused him of disingenuousness, and was roughly right, but only roughly.†  (source)
  • It was all quite disingenuous, as doubtless Abigail knew.†  (source)
  • The girl heard him as if from a distance, and turned her face toward him, one eye—on the side of the light—closed tight, her open eye very, however disingenuously, large, and so blue as to appear almost violet.†  (source)
  • Disingenuousness and double dealing seemed to meet him at every turn.†  (source)
  • This objection is disingenuous.†  (source)
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