disingenuous

• This was disingenuous, and so obviously so that it was also foolish; for no conference about “two countries” was “in conformity” with the letter of Mr. Lincoln. —  Abraham Lincoln
• Other readers expressed disappointment that I was not more critical of the five Supreme Court Justices who made Bush president; it is disingenuous, they said, to try to find creditable explanations for what was so obviously a crude political decision. —  'A Badly Flawed Election': An Exchange
• It is this approach (and not "no regrets") that is "disingenuous," because the Administration is looking to count CFC reductions already pledged under the Montreal Protocol of 1987. —  The Sticking Gas
• This is disingenuous, at the least, and highly hypocritical at the most, for these -- for these people to pose at these hearings and pretend with all this hand-wringing to be so concerned. —  CNN Transcript Apr 1, 2008
• Mr Elliot is evidently a disingenuous, artificial, worldly man, who has never had any better principle to guide him than selfishness. " —  Persuasion

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