Sentence examples for disingenuous game from inspiring English sources

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The government is playing a disingenuous game by conflating pay progression with cost-of-living increases.

If someone says if there's a vacancy some time in the future, might you be in the frame, I'm not going to be playing this disingenuous game of ruling anything in or out".

Outraged at being manoeuvred into paying over the odds for his rooms, he is determined to "make it up by getting hold of my spoil for nothing", and he embarks on a disingenuous game of seduction in which the costs of literary concupiscence are made painfully clear.

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But now David Cameron is playing a despicable political game: disingenuous at best, bare-faced lying at worst.

"If you're going to miss 'em miss 'em quick" was one piece of advice he related in regards to his famous speed of play; after his approach Duncan would drop straight into stance and make the shot as he considered practice swings to be disingenuous to the game, bordering on cheating.

Also, the comparison with the Hot Coffee scandal is disingenuous; that involved a game – GTA: San Andreas – being pulled from the shelves for a hidden interactive sex sequence, which was found on the disc and distributed by hackers, whereas what's been removed here are portions of the game integral to the plot.

It is axiomatic that the congressional debate over the current budget gridlock was disingenuous and a partisan game on the American people.

"In the midst of a serious budget process that affects the lives of all New Yorkers, it is counterproductive, disingenuous and dangerous to play games by announcing a so-called newly discovered crisis of the day," the governor's spokesman, Joshua Vlasto, said in a statement.

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