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- I was still hugging the boy, so he couldn't see the disingenuous look on my youthful face.† (source)
- Dishonorable, disingenuous, and shameful.† (source)
- I smiled frankly and disingenuously.† (source)
- These things, she felt, were not to be passed around like disingenuous party favors.† (source)
- Do not be disingenuous with me, Colonel Graff.† (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)
- 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)
- Where before it would just be indulgent, undeserved, disingenuous emotion.† (source)
- 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)
- 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)
- Vergennes's professed need to see the instructions Gerard was bringing was disingenuous, since Gerard had long since sent Vergennes a summary of Adams's instructions, in a dispatch from Philadelphia the very day they were adopted by Congress.† (source)
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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)
- 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)
- This objection is disingenuous.† (source)
- It's disingenuous to exaggerate her position and then prove the exaggerated position to be unreasonable.
- It is disingenuous to call it an "Education" bill as it did nothing to aid education.
- Mr Elliot is evidently a disingenuous, artificial, worldly man, who has never had any better principle to guide him than selfishness. (source)
- It was all quite disingenuous, as doubtless Abigail knew.† (source)
- It was done with the highly oxygenated, disingenuous, high-humored esprit of boys still young enough to laugh at death.† (source)
- The challenge of suppressing cheaters who performed their dastardly deeds so openly and disingenuously and with so much intellectual relish was immense.† (source)
- He was a beer saufer; droopy, small, a humorist, wry, drawn, weak, his tone nosy and quinchy, his pants in creases under his paunch; his nose curved up and presented offended and timorous nostrils, and he had round, disingenuous eyes in which he showed he was strongly defended.† (source)
- The Major accused him of disingenuousness, and was roughly right, but only roughly.† (source)
- Disingenuousness and double dealing seemed to meet him at every turn.† (source)
- CUSINS [disingenuously] Well—er—well, possibly, as a collector of religions— LOMAX [cunningly] Not as a drummer, though, you know.† (source)
- 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.† (source)
- But the phrase on the priest's lips was disingenuous for he knew that a priest should not speak lightly on that theme.† (source)
- Woman is perfidious and disingenuous.† (source)
- Mr Elliot is evidently a disingenuous, artificial, worldly man, who has never had any better principle to guide him than selfishness.† (source)
- Still she was the first to speak; since Eau-douce could utter naught that would be disingenuous, or that would pain his friend.† (source)
- I am well aware that it would be disingenuous to resolve indiscriminately the opposition of any set of men (merely because their situations might subject them to suspicion) into interested or ambitious views.† (source)
- The disingenuous form in which this objection is usually stated has been repeatedly adverted to and exposed, but continues to be pursued in all the conversations and writings of the opponents of the plan.† (source)
- There is something so far-fetched and so extravagant in the idea of danger to liberty from the militia, that one is at a loss whether to treat it with gravity or with raillery; whether to consider it as a mere trial of skill, like the paradoxes of rhetoricians; as a disingenuous artifice to instil prejudices at any price; or as the serious offspring of political fanaticism.† (source)
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