disingenuity
Example Sentences
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What’s more, she respects her subject without eliding his narcissism or disingenuity.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 26, 2025
There is thus more than a whiff of “we need to destroy the village in order to save it” illogic and disingenuity to the majority’s unfairness critique.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 3, 2023
These writers often find themselves under rhetorical attack from gratuitously fractious and antagonistic commenters who seek to inhibit debate through intimidation, insult, and disingenuity.
From Slate ● Nov. 5, 2015
So we're back to this question of disingenuity; he can't seriously believe her profile would be improved, can he?
From The Guardian ● Jan. 30, 2011
Did I fancy, or was it fact, that you were a flapper to Mr. Burke, when Mr. Law charged him with disingenuity, in not having recanted the accusation concerning Devy Sing?
From The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 2 by Fanny Burney
