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Recent Examples of disingenuous
Coming from a firm that has profited handsomely for years from practices that have undermined transparency and pushed retail trading off public exchanges, this sudden call for clarity and caution reads as disingenuous.
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Daniel Schlaepfer, Forbes.com, 8 May 2025
What Pritzker has done since bears little resemblance to the original law, and using it as cover for his broader immigration policies is disingenuous at best.
—Jason Plummer, Chicago Tribune, 11 June 2025
Anyone familiar with the history of dictatorships might find this idea disingenuous.
—Ava Kofman, New Yorker, 2 June 2025
The South African government has strongly rejected these allegations, and most within the country and from across the political spectrum, view them as disingenuous at best.
—Time, 22 May 2025
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Daniel Schlaepfer, Forbes.com, 8 May 2025
What Pritzker has done since bears little resemblance to the original law, and using it as cover for his broader immigration policies is disingenuous at best.
—Jason Plummer, Chicago Tribune, 11 June 2025
Anyone familiar with the history of dictatorships might find this idea disingenuous.
—Ava Kofman, New Yorker, 2 June 2025
The South African government has strongly rejected these allegations, and most within the country and from across the political spectrum, view them as disingenuous at best.
—Time, 22 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for disingenuous
Adjective
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So, in that moment, the things that are coming out of my mouth are not dishonest.—
Jason P. Frank,
Vulture,
22 July 2025
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Writing faculty have both the agency and the academic freedom to examine generative AI’s dishonest training origins and conclude: There is no path to ethically teach AI skills.—
Peter Greene,
Forbes.com,
22 July 2025
Adjective
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Wood did not know the details of the deceitful story that scammers told the man.—
Susan Tompor,
Freep.com,
10 July 2025
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Supporters say the measures are intended to address potential threats to public safety or personal privacy and to counter any deceitful actions facilitated by AI, while not hindering innovation.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
7 July 2025
Adjective
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The deficient vice of integrity is being fake, untruthful, inconsistent, unprincipled, and manipulative.—
Mary Crossan,
Forbes.com,
17 July 2025
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The document discovery in those cases revealed that France had been untruthful during the NFLPA arbitration process.—
Chris Deubert,
Forbes.com,
31 May 2025
Adjective
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Building the Band putting so much faith in its contestants to determine their fate keeps it compelling from the jump — a welcome change of pace from the days of contrived band-building in the late ’90s and aughts.—
Fran Hoepfner,
Vulture,
17 July 2025
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Henry Golding plays a bookkeeper whose sole purpose is to set up the lore, but Discord’s threat always feels more contrived than inevitable.—
David Ehrlich,
IndieWire,
2 July 2025
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There’s no question which member of Congress put on the year’s most hypocritical legislative performance.—
Carl P. Leubsdorf,
Twin Cities,
23 July 2025
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There’s just this hypocritical system in which there is demand for immigrant labor in many industries, along with demonization of these very contributors.—
Steve Lopez,
Los Angeles Times,
25 June 2025
Adjective
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Even if that means stepping into a version of themselves that feels unnatural.—
Vibhas Ratanjee,
Forbes.com,
11 July 2025
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While some can be used across different hair textures, lengths, curl patterns, thicknesses, colors (natural and unnatural), and concerns, many are created with specific consumers and their needs in mind.—
Angela Trakoshis,
Allure,
11 July 2025
Adjective
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Imagine the naïve mind of a 16-yer old being manipulated by the devious, nefarious, and exceptionally skillful political strategists who are backed by countless billions of bucks.—
Eli Amdur,
Forbes.com,
19 July 2025
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Expose every last devious aspect of the terror attack — all the countries that looked the other way and the spy agencies that failed fellow Americans.—
Boston Herald editorial staff,
Boston Herald,
15 July 2025
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Heatstroke was something that occurred outdoors — patients did not develop heatstroke inside the assumed safety of a hospital environment.—
Cory Franklin,
Chicago Tribune,
13 July 2025
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But even still, with the assumed seven, the Panthers have a lot of decisions to make.—
Alex Zietlow,
Charlotte Observer,
2 July 2025
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“Disingenuous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disingenuous. Accessed 5 Aug. 2025.
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