disingenuous
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This angered locals like 34-year-old accountant Daniel Sroka, who said the police were being disingenuous.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
You can’t name it or force it into a box, and if you do, the result will always read as disingenuous.
From Salon ● Jun. 18, 2026
“It would be disingenuous to say we weren’t at least a little trying to weird people out,” creator Cullen Crawford laughs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 15, 2026
Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, whose comments have stoked anxiety about AI's potential effects on society, are now arguing that doom-laden warnings were overblown or, in some cases, disingenuous.
From Barron's ● May 27, 2026
To these families, it all seemed so disingenuous, the thinly veiled plea for mercy and, most of all, the idea that Reggie was taking responsibility, “willing to man up.”
From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel
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