Sentence examples for disingenuous attempt from inspiring English sources

It's a disingenuous attempt to shut us down completely.

It's a disingenuous attempt to score points on a highly polarized scientific issue.

With due respect, I have to wonder if Jill Abramson's comment that women don't bring a different sensibility to journalism was a disingenuous attempt to be politically correct.

That may be true, but everything else about Osborne's speech is marked by a brazen and disingenuous attempt to win the intellectual argument by re-writing history.

Most of the French hackery reckon his bonhomie is a disingenuous attempt to conceal all the problems in his camp: rumours of strife are rife.

He has mocked Mr. Landry's stance on sovereignty as a disingenuous attempt to lure moderate voters who have no interest in separating from Canada.

"This is a disingenuous attempt to make the story go away, which should only raise more questions about what he's trying to hide," Mr. Stringer's spokeswoman, Audrey Gelman, said.

And you should recognize all the hyped-up talk about the deficit for what it is: yet another disingenuous attempt to scare and bully the body politic into abandoning programs that shield both poor and middle-class Americans from harm.

What he should not do is mislead members into thinking they are campaigning against something they are not in a disingenuous attempt to engineer industrial action and boost his own public profile.

Our concern for the safety of area children is color blind and the accusation of racism is a weak, disingenuous attempt to divert attention from the danger this mall poses.

A botched attempt to make right the original piece didn't help either - the assertion that Collins had "left out one little bit" was changed to "downplayed one detail", in a somewhat disingenuous attempt to deflect the flak.