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 was disingenuous, of course—and that’s a kind way of putting it.
  — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2019
• This is not the time for disingenuous claims of gun control.
  — Sarah Jones, New Republic, 2 Oct. 2017
• Now There's a disingenuous both-sides-ism to just about every idea the game puts forth.
  — Joshua Rivera, GQ, 2 Apr. 2018
• That would only confirm the disingenuous nature of some of these pledges in the first place.
  — David Oyelowo, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Apr. 2022
• 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
• Farewell shows tend to be slathered with treacle, full of disingenuous praise.
  — Jack Dickey, SI.com, 15 Dec. 2017
• The 2,000-acre thing is the most disingenuous thing ever in Congress.
  — Bob Reiss, Fortune, 15 Sep. 2017
• The Biden team has expressed some surprise with the surge, but Kopits said that is disingenuous.
  — Paul Bedard, Washington Examiner, 11 Mar. 2021
• Gone are the days of fake or disingenuous social media posts.
  — Silvia Mah, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2021
• But there’s a lot of conflating of problems and some of the critiques feel disingenuous.
  — Stuart Miller, Los Angeles Times, 22 Nov. 2022
• And the idea of kind of just resolving it in an episode feels disingenuous to the experience.
  — Carly Thomas, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Dec. 2023
• Even getting a tweet at the Olympics is almost disingenuous.
  — Christine Brennan, USA TODAY, 26 Apr. 2018
• In the video, the host claims Trump's 2016 refusal to pursue charges against Clinton for her use of a private email server is disingenuous.
  — Nate Trela, USA TODAY, 26 May 2023
• The story shows what happens when Nala becomes trapped by a web of lies and disingenuous falsehoods.
  — NBC News, 19 Feb. 2021
• There’s nothing disingenuous about Before Brit, but there’s a lot of artifice that comes with a life on the stage and over a decade of court-control.
  — Raven Smith, Vogue, 13 Apr. 2022
• 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
• Without sounding disingenuous, this call kind of felt out of left field.
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 2 Mar. 2022
• While the sentiment is sweet, the use of Al to craft such a personal message feels disingenuous.
  — Megan Morrone, Axios, 31 July 2024
• 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
• This practice is disingenuous as these surcharge fees are not meant to be reversed or come off.
  — Jennifer Vangrove, The Mercury News, 14 June 2024
• This is not to say that the love and appreciation shown by Belichick and Brady was disingenuous.
  — Ben Volin, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Feb. 2023
• That’s why, to me, the protests in New York City feel strange, disingenuous, co-opted, almost surreal.
  — National Geographic, 4 June 2020
• This, in turn, might come off as disingenuous and cause the public to distrust influencers.
  — Expert Panel, Forbes, 31 Aug. 2021
• To be clear, McConnell's rhetoric here was disingenuous.
  — Jack Holmes, Esquire, 5 Jan. 2017
• To think that they would be totally healed would be disingenuous and not accurate to how friends are.
  — Los Angeles Times, 24 Oct. 2021
• But the current, disingenuous approach has its own price.
  — Daniel Markey, Foreign Affairs, 16 June 2023
• There was nothing disingenuous about the Protect Our Parks proposed charter amendment.
  — Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 9 Aug. 2024
• To me, that level of blind devotion to AI ignores an inconvenient truth: AI has its limitations, and pretending that those limitations don’t exist, or don’t matter, is disingenuous at best.
  — Mike Maynard, Forbes, 25 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 21 Nov 2024