disingenuity

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What’s more, she respects her subject without eliding his narcissism or disingenuity.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 26, 2025

There is thus more than a whiff of “we need to destroy the village in order to save it” illogic and disingenuity to the majority’s unfairness critique.

From Washington Post • Mar. 3, 2023

These writers often find themselves under rhetorical attack from gratuitously fractious and antagonistic commenters who seek to inhibit debate through intimidation, insult, and disingenuity.

From Slate • Nov. 5, 2015

So we're back to this question of disingenuity; he can't seriously believe her profile would be improved, can he?

From The Guardian • Jan. 30, 2011

Probably each one will discover things in himself which he had not suspected—depravity, unfairness, disingenuity, the bare suspicion of which by others, would be resented as affrontive.

From Sermons on Various Important Subjects by Lee, Andrew