Sample sentences for DISINGENUOUS

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Definition

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

(Editor's note: 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.)

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

(Editor's note: 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.)

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

(Editor's note: 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.)

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

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