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• a  not straightforward or candid; giving a false appearance of frankness
  an ambitious, disingenuous, philistine, and hypocritical operator, who...exemplified...the most disagreeable traits of his time"- David Cannadine
  a disingenuous excuse

• As Stockman noted 20 years ago, phony accounting and disingenuous prognostication are not illegal when you are running the government.
• He even seemed to suggest that it's a bit disingenuous for a political candidate to feel compelled to choose a congregation based on a political, rather than purely spiritual .
• Acknowledging how disingenuous that would have been, and how craven, Obama instead pulled Wright back and re-owned him, saying, "As imperfect as he may be, he has been like .

• artful

• ingenuous

News & Articles

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• IUEC Responds to NEEA's Demand to Force Elevator Workers Back to Work and Launches Elevatorsafety.ca
  WHITBY, ONTARIO--(Marketwired - June 13, 2013) - International Union of Elevator Constructors (IUEC) is calling the National Elevator and Escalator Association's (NEEA) surprise demand to force the union back to work, a disingenuous effort of creating false hope for Ontarians.
  June 13, 2013 - Marketwire
• Thom Loverro: A-Rod's PED controversy will be hard to swallow for Hall of Fame voters
  Kathy Willens/AP Alex Rodriguez's disingenuous record of proclamations of innocence in steroid use will make him hard for Hall of Fame voters to embrace.
  June 12, 2013 - Washington Examiner

Quotes

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• Robert Gates in Wall Street Journal
  Any speculation in the region about the United States losing interest in Asia strikes me as either preposterous, or disingenuous, or both,Mr. Gates said, noting that he had served under seven US presidents.
• Frances Fragos Townsend in 940 News
  Fran Townsend, former head of the White House-based counterterrorism office, told CNN that "for him to do this now strikes me as self-serving, disingenuous and unprofessional."
• George Tenet in USA Today
  I was a talking point - 'Look at the idiot (who) told us to go to war.' Well, let's not be so disingenuous,Tenet says.