Sentence examples for disingenuously from inspiring English sources

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disingenuously

adverb

In a manner that is not frank or open; deceptively.

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Amy is out and proud, officially, albeit disingenuously, which should make her real coming out journey – if that is what the show is going to portray – easier.

The Daily Mail carried a two-page article claiming Labour was "committing suicide" and an editorial that disingenuously denied suggestions that Miliband was being subjected to a rightwing plot.

I do think what they have done not only is to back the no campaign with all their cash, and disingenuously pretend that wasn't the case, but also to encourage Nick Clegg to be the fall guy for the AV no vote, quite apart from what was happening in the local elections.

"Unfortunately, though, that is the conclusion to which I've been forced to come, and I thought it best to acknowledge it publicly and head-on rather than disingenuously pretending otherwise".

Somewhat disingenuously, Google TV is plugging the combination of television and web browsing as if the firm invented it, conveniently forgetting WebTV (later MSN TV) 14 years earlier.

A common response I've heard from the left is that I'm slyly seeking to sow discord by disingenuously arguing that the larger union movement is not in fact one, but is instead a coalition of fundamentally distinct organisations of unequal moral standing.

But Mr Sharon, while echoing the call for an immediate ceasefire, has turned down the report's crucial confidence-building demand for a freeze on all settlement construction, including expansion for what the Israelis disingenuously call "natural growth".Mr Sharon has to be encouraged to change his mind, and the encouragement has to be delivered, in unmistakably blunt words, by the Americans.

"Somehow news of the banners in our factories leaked out," he says disingenuously, as if you could keep such a secret after it has been blazoned to 264,000 workers around the world.Market capitalisation says it all.

It is a surprisingly (and perhaps disingenuously) humble note from a man who was noted for the determination with which he promoted his own ideas when he was in the top job in Brussels.Yet one of the keys to Mr Delors's effectiveness as commission president was his ability to forge a creative working relationship with the heads of key European governments.

The SNP has held down taxes and held back spending on universities and hospitals, even as it disingenuously accuses the Conservative-led government in Westminster of doing precisely these things.

"What I can't avoid," he added disingenuously, "is someone else doing it".

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