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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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I smiled frankly and disingenuously.† (source)
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Where before it would just be indulgent, undeserved, disingenuous emotion.† (source)
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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)
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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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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.
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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)
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It was all quite disingenuous, as doubtless Abigail knew.† (source)
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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)
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Disingenuousness and double dealing seemed to meet him at every turn.† (source)
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This objection is disingenuous.† (source)
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