disingenuous
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"We can never trust what an oligarch says because all they do -- they're disingenuous and they lie," Bannon said.
From Barron's ● Sep. 15, 2026
She said it would be "disingenuous" of the industry to suggest that a VAT cut would all be passed through to lower consumer prices.
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026
Hochman said Flores simply could have taken notes on the inappropriate comments and turned them in to superiors or the independent inspector general, which strikes me as either sweetly naive or disingenuous.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026
This angered locals like 34-year-old accountant Daniel Sroka, who said the police were being disingenuous.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
Their very names were disingenuous, and told you nothing about their contents, their creators, or their managers: Carina, Gemstone, Octans III, Glacier Funding.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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