Sample Sentences fordisingenuous (auto-selected)
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Do not be disingenuous with me, Colonel Graff. (source)disingenuous = insincere
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I was still hugging the boy, so he couldn't see the disingenuous look on my youthful face.† (source)
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Dishonorable, disingenuous, and shameful.† (source)
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Where before it would just be indulgent, undeserved, disingenuous emotion.† (source)
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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)
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I smiled frankly and disingenuously.† (source)
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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)
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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)
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The Major accused him of disingenuousness, and was roughly right, but only roughly.† (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.
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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.† (source)
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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)
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Disingenuousness and double dealing seemed to meet him at every turn.† (source)
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These things, she felt, were not to be passed around like disingenuous party favors.† (source)
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CUSINS [disingenuously] Well—er—well, possibly, as a collector of religions— LOMAX [cunningly] Not as a drummer, though, you know.† (source)
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This objection is disingenuous.† (source)
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The challenge of suppressing cheaters who performed their dastardly deeds so openly and disingenuously and with so much intellectual relish was immense.† (source)
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