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disingenuousness

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The character of being disingenuous; want of candor.

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  • noun The state or quality of being disingenuous.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the quality of being disingenuous and lacking candor

Etymologies

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disingenuous +‎ -ness

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Examples

  • That is what we call disingenuousness little buddy.

    Center for American Progress Action Fund 2010

  • That is what we call disingenuousness little buddy.

    Center for American Progress Action Fund 2010

  • You must not think much of your argument if you think that this degree of disingenuousness is required to support it.

    Matthew Yglesias » Playoffs! 2010

  • The apparent disingenuousness is most evident in the fund’s ardent opposition to gay marriage.

    Constitutional Issues 2009

  • The apparent disingenuousness is most evident in the fund’s ardent opposition to gay marriage.

    Sui Generis--a New York law blog: 2008

  • The apparent disingenuousness is most evident in the fund’s ardent opposition to gay marriage.

    Daily Record--Legal Currents Column 2008

  • The apparent disingenuousness is most evident in the fund’s ardent opposition to gay marriage.

    Religious liberty for some, not all 2008

  • Oliver Stone, always the ne plus ultra of disingenuousness, is by Bugliosi’s reckoning guilty of a “cultural crime” committed through a thousand manipulations, among them the use of a smoke machine to generate a puff of rifle smoke from the Grassy Knoll that JFK presents as being visible to people in Dealey Plaza.

    A Knoll of One’s Own 2007

  • Oliver Stone, always the ne plus ultra of disingenuousness, is by Bugliosi’s reckoning guilty of a “cultural crime” committed through a thousand manipulations, among them the use of a smoke machine to generate a puff of rifle smoke from the Grassy Knoll that JFK presents as being visible to people in Dealey Plaza.

    A Knoll of One’s Own 2007

  • This kind of disingenuousness validates dangerous nonsense as legitimate opinion and sets the table for extremism.

    Ian Gurvitz: Put Hate Speech in the Crosshairs Ian Gurvitz 2011

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