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disingenuity
noun as in craft
Example Sentences
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.
Alito’s dissent, which wholeheartedly adopted the independent state legislature doctrine, is a masterclass in disingenuity.
Faced with this onslaught of disingenuity, Democrats have two options.
So there is more than a dollop of disingenuity when Mr. Ratcliffe - a fiercely partisan former Republican congressman from Texas who was tapped by Mr. Trump for the intelligence job in May - says he is ending in-person briefings to ensure that the intelligence information “is not misunderstood nor politicized,” and to better protect “sensitive intelligence” from “disclosures or misuse.”
And if you ignore the disingenuity involved, he’s been better during the campaign than any of the much more experienced candidates at responding to problems and subtly modifying the case for his candidacy to make it more appealing.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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