Some seem blatantly manipulative and disingenuous (for example, naming a timber-cutting bill the "Save our Forests" act), and others can backfire.
Jay-Z plays irritatingly coy with conspiracy theories: he repudiates the old illuminati canard, but it's rather disingenuous given, for example, the title of this album.
Why give "ironic" more attentiveness, for example, than "disingenuous?" In the latter case, one "usage note" points out that "the meaning of disingenuous has been shifting about lately, as if people are unsure of its proper meaning".
To say Google Maps, YouTube and Play are "must have" apps also seems a little disingenuous — when Nokia, for example, has its own mapping software (Here Maps) which at other times it would doubtless argue is competitive with Google Maps.
Chuck Watson, Dynegy's chairman and chief executive officer, called the lawsuit "frivolous and disingenuous," as well as an example of Enron refusing to take responsibility for its spectacular crash.
This is just another example of the disingenuous habit of this administration to create "some people" whom they can argue against, strawman arguments that they can use in their disgusting political attacks.
Sonnet 109, for example, is a patently disingenuous excuse offered for Shakespeare's negligence of his lover, and I made a parallel translation from bullshit into English.
"The article published in GQ today is yet another example of the dishonest media and their disingenuous reporting.
There has been much disingenuous talk that "multipolar structures are inherently unstable," citing examples of Europe in the 19th and early 20th centuries and blaming multipolarity for conflicts and wars, including world wars.
When Kareiva uses the example of resiliency on Mount St. Helens, he is being somewhat disingenuous.
Of the several occasions when he himself attracted critical attention — the Pat Tillman affair, for example, or the leaking of his Afghan strategic assessment — McChrystal offers explanations that fall somewhere between perfunctory and disingenuous.
