How to Use disingenuous in a Sentence

disingenuous

adjective

• Her recent expressions of concern are self-serving and disingenuous.
• The laptop was a gift to the paranoid and the disingenuous.
  — Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 28 Apr. 2022
• This is not the time for disingenuous claims of gun control.
  — Sarah Jones, New Republic, 2 Oct. 2017
• This was disingenuous, of course—and that’s a kind way of putting it.
  — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2019
• That would only confirm the disingenuous nature of some of these pledges in the first place.
  — David Oyelowo, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Apr. 2022
• Gone are the days of fake or disingenuous social media posts.
  — Silvia Mah, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2021
• Farewell shows tend to be slathered with treacle, full of disingenuous praise.
  — Jack Dickey, SI.com, 15 Dec. 2017
• That would be disingenuous, but maybe limit it to a joke at the top of the show and then one midshow callback?
  — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Mar. 2018
• But there’s a lot of conflating of problems and some of the critiques feel disingenuous.
  — Stuart Miller, Los Angeles Times, 22 Nov. 2022
• So to pretend that the game was somehow pure in one era and impure in another is disingenuous.
  — Jay Jaffe, SI.com, 7 Aug. 2017
• Without sounding disingenuous, this call kind of felt out of left field.
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 2 Mar. 2022
• Even getting a tweet at the Olympics is almost disingenuous.
  — Christine Brennan, USA TODAY, 26 Apr. 2018
• Now There's a disingenuous both-sides-ism to just about every idea the game puts forth.
  — Joshua Rivera, GQ, 2 Apr. 2018
• To think that they would be totally healed would be disingenuous and not accurate to how friends are.
  — Los Angeles Times, 24 Oct. 2021
• Customers can spot a disingenuous campaign a mile away.
  — Anastasia Nisenbaum, Rolling Stone, 20 Oct. 2023
• But the current, disingenuous approach has its own price.
  — Daniel Markey, Foreign Affairs, 16 June 2023
• The story shows what happens when Nala becomes trapped by a web of lies and disingenuous falsehoods.
  — NBC News, 19 Feb. 2021
• To many in the industry, that seemed pretty disingenuous.
  — Nilay Patel, The Verge, 28 Feb. 2023
• The argument that this is an essential step to help those in search of an affordable home is disingenuous at best.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 23 Apr. 2021
• This sounded like two men (and a creative team) who chose to be disingenuous in order to make that happen.
  — Soraya Roberts, Longreads, 19 July 2019
• To suggest that the funds were not carefully vetted is disingenuous.
  — Jon Pushkin, The Denver Post, 3 Mar. 2017
• There are some reactions to terror that fall under the same disingenuous rubric as background checks.
  — Jonathan S. Tobin, National Review, 2 Nov. 2017
• This, in turn, might come off as disingenuous and cause the public to distrust influencers.
  — Expert Panel, Forbes, 31 Aug. 2021
• Was there a more disingenuous comment uttered in recent days?
  — Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Sep. 2022
• There’s a question bubbling just beneath the surface that’s disingenuous not to pose.
  — Jon Wertheim, SI.com, 7 Feb. 2018
• In some settings, this could feel contrived or disingenuous.
  — Dahlia Ghabour, The Courier-Journal, 7 Aug. 2021
• But the Houthis response has been ambiguous at best, disingenuous at worst.
  — Nic Robertson, Nada Bashir and Charbel Mallo, CNN, 23 Apr. 2021
• But his presentation of them as solvable with some tweaks is disingenuous.
  — Scientific American, 19 July 2021
• This entire op-ed was disingenuous, the ultimate subtweet and a way of throwing a rock while hiding your hand.
  — Monique Judge, The Root, 2 July 2018
• Still, to say this season has been anything but forgettable would be disingenuous.
  — Creg Stephenson | [e-mail], al, 17 May 2023

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