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Yes, I'd call it disengenuous to say one thin gon this leaflet that contradicts what is on her website.
Final Tory Tabloid from Norwich North Norfolk Blogger 2009
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What Terry MacAuliffe calls disengenuous is the civil, upstanding and honorable way Senator Obama has run his campaign from day one – Hillary and her crew would know nothing about that.
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I consider the call for AV before that to be disengenuous.
Constitutional reform: Alternative currents | Editorial 2011
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Of course, another Usuper apologist appears (there will be many, but I can refute and smack down any of their disengenuous arguments).
The Volokh Conspiracy » Taking the Washington Post to School 2010
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As I said to Arolem, I admit to being disengenuous (I was doing it for fun, though it has begun to seem less fun all the time - and obvioulsy you all did not think it was fun EVER).
[Guest Post] Part 1: A Manifesto of Imaginative Literature by Justin Allen 2010
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“[T] o tell Defendants that their efforts were not good enough years after not advising them of any compliance issues is disengenuous and is highly relevant to the inquiry into whether Defendants should have done something different in the first instance.”
Archive 2009-08-01 Rebecca Tushnet 2009
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Mick: Of course, another Usuper apologist appears (there will be many, but I can refute and smack down any of their disengenuous arguments).
The Volokh Conspiracy » Taking the Washington Post to School 2010
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To claim the stimulus a failure after 6 months is disengenuous.
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Mick: Of course, another Usuper apologist appears (there will be many, but I can refute and smack down any of their disengenuous arguments).
The Volokh Conspiracy » Taking the Washington Post to School 2010
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“[T] o tell Defendants that their efforts were not good enough years after not advising them of any compliance issues is disengenuous and is highly relevant to the inquiry into whether Defendants should have done something different in the first instance.”
FTC loses substantiation case because of good faith Rebecca Tushnet 2009
cirrostratus commented on the word disengenuous
insincere, intentionally misleading, deceptive
July 3, 2009