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Recent Examples of disingenuous
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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Because there are five meaningful ways that honest messaging beats dishonest marketing.Drew Gerber, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
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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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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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To update all this for the present, there are some contrived explanations — the girls made the burn book during a period in middle school where their teachers banned phone use — as well as a heavy ladling of references to the internet.Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 12 Jan. 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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Some even pointed to an interview Yang recently conducted with the pop star for Interview magazine, claiming that his comments seemed hypocritical in hindsight given the nature of his SNL performance.Stephen Daw, Billboard, 30 Sep. 2024
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Movie masturbation scenes also highlight our culture’s hypocritical double standard.Caroline Madden, Vulture, 8 July 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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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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As if to underline how emotions and relationships can make devious scheming more complicated, this week’s case — another good one!Noel Murray, Vulture, 31 Oct. 2024
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The only male character who polled lower than any woman on the list was Frank Underwood, played by Kevin Spacey, an insanely devious fictional president who was responsible for multiple murders on the Netflix drama.Judy Kurtz, The Hill, 29 Oct. 2024
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The real Qiao Yan lives on the fringes of poverty in Myanmar and the assumed Qiao Yan becomes a famed actress in China.Abid Rahman, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Nov. 2024
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Plus, the icing on the baby cake is the middle name of Blues, which is the opposite of the assumed Plum since plum purple was Justin’s signature color as a teen.Alejandra Gularte, Vulture, 24 Aug. 2024
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“Disingenuous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disingenuous. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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