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To make less of that is disingenuous and disrespectful!
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Dp Opinion, The Denver Post, 10 Sep. 2024
In truth, the reserved Scorpio was never shy, and Scorp was never disingenuous.
—Jennifer Culp, Them, 16 Oct. 2024
Shannon Watts, the founder of gun control activist group Moms Demand Action, hit back at the disingenuous attacks on Walz, outlining his achievements in helping to introduce gun control laws in Minnesota in recent years.
—David Gilbert, WIRED, 2 Oct. 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
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Dp Opinion, The Denver Post, 10 Sep. 2024
In truth, the reserved Scorpio was never shy, and Scorp was never disingenuous.
—Jennifer Culp, Them, 16 Oct. 2024
Shannon Watts, the founder of gun control activist group Moms Demand Action, hit back at the disingenuous attacks on Walz, outlining his achievements in helping to introduce gun control laws in Minnesota in recent years.
—David Gilbert, WIRED, 2 Oct. 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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for disingenuous
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Whereas John Kerry at his convention had struggled to create meaning—no matter how stupid, dishonest, or clichéd—George Bush seemed to be plotting its demise.Yiyun Li, Harper's Magazine, 23 Sep. 2024
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Nothing about it feels the least bit real, but nothing about it feels dishonest either.David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 17 Oct. 2024
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Holeman said Allen showed signs of being deceitful during a 2022 interview, such as looking down and touching his face.John Tufts, The Indianapolis Star, 26 Oct. 2024
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Lawmakers should first fix the current deceitful ballot and campaign practices of local agencies and businesses that financially benefit from passage of bond measures.Mercury News & East Bay Times Editorial Boards, The Mercury News, 13 Oct. 2024
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Our choice is the person who says the most outrageous, offensive and untruthful things, or the person who is subjected to those insults and lies.Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 29 Oct. 2024
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This comes after Adrian Houser was moved to the bullpen after a poor start to the season, after Edwin Diaz was briefly taken out of the closer role and after and Jorge Lopez was designated for assignment for being untruthful and unremorseful in controversial postgame remarks last week.Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 4 June 2024
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Worse still, if the negation of the axiom of choice were true, there wouldn’t just be a few (very contrived) examples of sets that can’t be measured—the whole theory of measurement would collapse!Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 1 Oct. 2024
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A lot of reality shows are people who just met for the sake of the show, these contrived situations.Matthew Jacobs, Vulture, 29 Mar. 2024
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The thumb has been placed on the scales to promote the agenda of the person who owns this website under the intensely hypocritical guise of free speech.Jason Parham, WIRED, 25 Oct. 2024
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The result is an American policy that is seen by much of the world as doubly hypocritical.Zack Beauchamp, Vox, 4 Oct. 2024
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Now Morisseau, who is half Haitian and half Black American, is exploring a new setting, that of urbane Port-au-Prince, some years after the 2010 earthquake, a natural disaster that brought to the fore, with devastating clarity, the unnatural cycles of exploitation that threaten to define Haiti.Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 2 Nov. 2024
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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.Christa Joanna Lee, Allure, 2 Nov. 2024
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Yet there's little-more devious than the increase in sextortion cases linked to the West African scammers.Matt Burgess, WIRED, 7 Sep. 2024
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There’s certainly nothing helpless about Greta, who pirouettes with devious finesse into our dark, cold, tell-tale hearts.Nicholas Bell, SPIN, 4 Sep. 2024
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Scholars following Man the Hunter dogma relied on this belief in women's limited physical capacities and the assumed burden of pregnancy and lactation to argue that only men hunted.Cara Ocobock, Scientific American, 1 Nov. 2023
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This brings the Midsummer in below 2,200 pounds to the assumed benefit of performance and handling.Ben Oliver, Robb Report, 16 May 2024
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“Disingenuous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disingenuous. Accessed 9 Nov. 2024.
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