It's frequently disingenuous and often ugly -- but it's compelling.
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I think that's so disingenuous ... look, he's a lightweight.
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Collecting users' information without permission is really lame and disingenuous.
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" He argued that using the term "indefinite detention" is "disingenuous.
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The decision was not simply predicated on a disingenuous rationale.
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Moscow appears similarly disingenuous over events in the Azov Sea.
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" Greebel's defense, according to Brafman, is "unfortunate, disingenuous and unfounded.
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I don't think he was, by any means, being disingenuous.
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In short, they felt disingenuous in their interactions with others.
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"It's disingenuous to link deployability to transgender personnel," she said.
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Hardly. China's anger is as disingenuous as it is dishonest.
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So for Iran to say they're fighting Daesh is disingenuous.
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It is hard to distinguish justified complaints from disingenuous scaremongering.
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First, the idea that UBI has bipartisan appeal is disingenuous.
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But it is disingenuous to pretend conflicts do not arise.
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It turns out that entire pledge was false and disingenuous.
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Blaming higher tax rates on a state's profligacy is disingenuous.
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That would be "disingenuous," he told The New York Times.
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It would feel disingenuous to force something down people's throats.
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So we're not going to fall for these disingenuous tactics.
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" Colicchio also told MUNCHIES that the expense argument is "disingenuous.
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What you seem to want to avoid is being disingenuous.
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Tactful and touching, or disingenuous, conceited, and just plain weird?
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Bush's Republican opponents suggest his support for Trump is disingenuous.
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That's where I feel like the tweet is almost disingenuous.
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Why does he insist on reiterating that Charles is disingenuous?
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" Gab also retweeted an account claiming Gizmodo's prior coverage was "disingenuous.
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A rehearsed response will come off as disingenuous and off-putting.
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"I would be disingenuous if I didn't admit that," Sorial said.
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Above all, free speech in academia cannot be disingenuous, she said.
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Even the new $7.4 billion price being promoted is disingenuous, however.
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Decoupling that truth from their gender is disingenuous and honestly, nonsensical.
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This is, of course, a disingenuous argument from a career opportunist.
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The tactics they have resorted to are disingenuous or outright false.
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To me, Spurlock's post came across as self-serving and disingenuous.
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If anything, the relentless torrent of disingenuous feel-goodery has intensified.
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It was a little disingenuous to pretend the move was altruistic.
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Still, the claim seems disingenuous given the amount raised last year.
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But while technically correct, that sort of argument is incredibly disingenuous.
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It's a little bit disingenuous to be making comments like that.
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You can call them dorky, but you can't call them disingenuous.
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That is disingenuous, given the scant material evidence of a pivot.
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To put the consequences on the same level would be disingenuous.
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It is, therefore, disingenuous to blame Germany for Italy's policy mistakes.
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Sacca's apology to the industry came off as disingenuous to many.
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He said, "I don't vote on bills," which I found disingenuous.
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But Gorka's invocation of the Pence rule is disingenuous at best.
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Each time, her remarks have been uncomfortably disingenuous and halfheartedly apologetic.
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The prime minister was being either tactically bashful or positively disingenuous.
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It would be easy to think of the concern as disingenuous.
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To state a 'meeting' took place is disingenuous and extremely misleading.
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The geography of the production process, however, makes their claim disingenuous.
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I think the companies, I don't think they're necessarily being disingenuous.
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It felt disingenuous, making people raw and real and polishing myself.
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When you know that what you are doing is just disingenuous.
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"Done with this disingenuous bulls---," he said in response to one user.
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I could describe this as "disingenuous," but it doesn't really cover it.
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If it comes in strong, will he look disingenuous if he boasts?
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"Towards the end, it started to feel a little disingenuous," he says.
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They&aposre being disingenuous when they say they want to do this.
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To say that they were doing something in his name is disingenuous.
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I can't tell if Ratner is being disingenuous, or just analytically bankrupt.
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And many residents have grown irritated by campaigns they see as disingenuous.
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"Defense counsel's letter is procedurally inappropriate and disingenuous," he told Judge Saris.
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But to blame Gina's woes on a bubbly equity market seems disingenuous.
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Many in Egypt's Christian community should find official calls for unity disingenuous.
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This idea on the one hand, the other hand, is really disingenuous.
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The characters can be cruel and disingenuous, but it's okay to laugh.
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Their opposition now is nothing less than a disingenuous act of hypocrisy.
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I felt it would be disingenuous if I did not do that.
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"Did you know at the time it was disingenuous?" the inquisitor asked.
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McCain, and women in this campaign and beyond, she risks looking disingenuous.
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It was a delicate act for him, instilling trust without being disingenuous.
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His lobbying today for an FTC-centered approach is disingenuous at best.
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He told reporters: This is a rather disingenuous reading of Farkas's statement.
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Yes, Clinton has been disingenuous and legalistic in her explanations of emails.
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Though disingenuous, this populism -- delivered with anger and charisma -- is Trump's Excalibur.
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And from the left you'll encounter equally disingenuous arguments and specious assertions.
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Facebook has been disingenuous in many of its defenses and its apologies.
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We don't have to indulge false equivalencies, plausible deniability and disingenuous debate.
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In addition, she continued, many whites see accusations of racism as disingenuous.
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" Citron added that the Markopolos report was "disingenuous all the way through.
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He said the argument that the EPA worried about enforcement was disingenuous.
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Using disingenuous allegations of lying to decide judicial matters is Mueller's past.
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He accused Trump of being "disingenuous" in running against the GOP establishment.
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Moreover it is an extremely disingenuous policy from a man like Macron.
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Still, on another level, the committee's action is bafflingly disingenuous and shortsighted.
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There are four solid reasons why this rationale is disingenuous and misleading.
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We saw how aggressively our politicians responded to disingenuous complaints of censorship.
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Otherwise it could look like honestly a disingenuous way of hooking people.
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If you're not writing for yourself, you're always being a little bit disingenuous.
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"I think Secretary Clinton knows what she says is very disingenuous," Sanders said.
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I've watched the company roll out diversity initiatives that I thought were disingenuous.
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It's disingenuous, and it reinforces the overarching theme of Kaepernick's protest being mischaracterized.
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Tlaib told CNN that she thinks it's disingenuous when Craig talks about victims.
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I think some of the arguments were disingenuous from some of the artists.
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But the wages of contrition went beyond half-hearted endorsements and disingenuous tweets.
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When it comes to the nation's most vulnerable children, senators are exceptionally disingenuous.
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And if you try professing your love for coal, it'll just seem disingenuous.
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Is there something disingenuous about art-making under such forced and mediated circumstances?
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But if somewhat disingenuous, her response was, in its way, accurate and revealing.
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It doesn't take much to scratch beneath the surface of McConnell's disingenuous claims.
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Blaming Trump for destroying American credibility with America's allies is disingenuous and dishonest.
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Rubio said it is "strange" that Cruz has targeted him with "disingenuous attacks."
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"To say that we don't have a role here is disingenuous," said Rep.
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Trump's supporters say critics of the parade are being disingenuous and skewing history.
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Neither greed nor disingenuous arguments are good reason to "fix" what isn't broken.
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Sanders was disingenuous in saying she doesn't want to relitigate the Civil War.
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Taxpayers should understand that criticism of the corporate rate cuts has been disingenuous.
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It's a vastly disingenuous response to a crisis entirely of Facebook's own making.
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But the suggested 10-year time frame seems disingenuous, to put it mildly.
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Again, there will be early warning signs if a broker is being disingenuous.
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"It just came off as very disingenuous," Mr. McKoon said of Delta's statement.
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It's a foolish and cruel policy, and the rationale CBP offered is disingenuous.
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For the characters, however, their encounters with that trauma feel shallow or disingenuous.
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Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), the lead House impeachment manager, called Philbin's dodges disingenuous.
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What happens is that your assessment of this evidence becomes ever more disingenuous.
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But all Beijing has done is demonstrate a disingenuous pattern of diplomatic ambidexterity.
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To show concern at this point shows the disingenuous side of partisan politics.
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Thus, the mayor's statement that BernieCare kicks millions off their plans is disingenuous.
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"It would be disingenuous if we tried to gloss over it," she said.
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Quinn addressed the allegations on "Chicago Tonight," suggesting that Krupa was being disingenuous.
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Thus far, Barr has given us a disingenuous and inaccurate spin on Mueller's report.
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It sucks, and feels disingenuous on Oculus' part for showing me the handicapped apps.
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Donald Trump is right, but disingenuous, to blame the mess on Mr Obama's weakness.
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SANDERS: Well, I think Secretary Clinton knows that what she says is very disingenuous.
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"It would be disingenuous to say that our leverage increases next year," said Meadows.
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But Colorado-based developer Deck Nine's take on Dontnod's world is anything but disingenuous.
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They are about as misleading and as disingenuous as an election poll on CNN.
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Nelly is confident that once investigated, these claims will be determined to be disingenuous.
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All the advice and guidance I was getting at the time was becoming disingenuous.
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Like Mr Bolton they are being disingenuous: multilateralising the agreement is an impossible goal.
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It was blatantly obvious and it her outrage about the Russian hacking seemed disingenuous.
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It could be read as disingenuous, and you're opening yourself up to be critiqued.
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U.S. officials responded skeptically, suggesting it was a disingenuous effort to get sanctions relief.
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It's disingenuous when people say "don't judge others" because everyone judges all the time.
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The same is true for the disingenuous claim that terrorists are among these refugees.
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But still, is it harmful or disingenuous to give multiple people the same label?
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Moreover, it presents a disingenuous picture about the science behind sodium reduction in children.
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Most people realize that it would be disingenuous to publicly criticize their own employer.
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But rarely have I seen an effort as disingenuous and exaggerated as what Gen.
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Referring to "this era of the Clippers" is a little bit disingenuous, of course.
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They're right, which means that his testimony this week was both disingenuous and meaningless.
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It's also disingenuous to say poor people will bear the burden of the tax.
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Think about all the excessive and often disingenuous ideas that Warren has thrown out.
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Trump's own words instantly left the speaker looking either highly naïve or deeply disingenuous.
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The Trump administration should be held accountable for their promises and their disingenuous actions.
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No doubt his appointees will attempt some other disingenuous foray around the Bonn negotiations.
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I do my best to be honest and forthright and to not be disingenuous.
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But prosecutors do say that Mr. Scarcella offered disingenuous testimony at Mr. Washington's trial.
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Pretending to be happy about it compounds my irritation and makes me feel disingenuous.
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The union, in turn, accuses district leaders of being disingenuous about the district's finances.
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The firm's name, however, is cheekily disingenuous; Sugimoto is fond of repurposing ancient materials.
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"Basically the judge is accusing Manafort's lawyers of making a disingenuous argument," Ohlin said.
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"This is a disingenuous take," tweeted Biden's senior adviser Symone Sanders, who is black.
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While it would be disingenuous to claim that those two are not at least guilty of exercising incredibly poor judgment, it would be equally disingenuous for anyone who really knows the modern-day bureau to insinuate that the organization is plotting from within.
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It's not very Italian as far as I'm aware, and to pretend otherwise feels disingenuous.
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Also, at one point the screen reads "THANK YOU INTERNET!" which sounds a little disingenuous.
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It sounds ridiculous and totally disingenuous, but we're literally doing the show just for ourselves.
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For tech companies to defend those online discussions as peaceful protests is disingenuous at best.
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And that started me down this path hunting for people who write these disingenuous reviews.
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For one thing, it's a disingenuous comparison, like saying bullets are more dangerous than guns.
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I sometimes like to call it "word as costume" because it feels disingenuous to me.
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"Livin' Off the Land," on the other hand, may be the most disingenuous song here.
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But from her question, what I can tell her is that we are not disingenuous.
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Giuliani is hardly the first conservative to make disingenuous claims about bias on social media.
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Because the problem is you'll seem phony, right, and I don't want to seem disingenuous.
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"This was the most transparently disingenuous testimony this court has ever witnessed," Justice Aloise said.
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But all Beijing has done so far is demonstrate a disingenuous pattern of diplomatic ambidexterity.
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Trump Jr. argued Saturday that Comey was being disingenuous in his description of the meeting.
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And in all fairness, its negative reputation as a calculated tearjerker strikes me as disingenuous.
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Of course, it would be disingenuous of me to omit the softer side of Davos.
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That may seem hyperbolic or even disingenuous to those who view our profession with mistrust.
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Trump's blanket refusal to comply with legitimate congressional subpoenas is petty and disingenuous, of course.
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New Deal as "disingenuous" and "pie-in-the-sky," even as he promised to release
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On one level, that's painfully disingenuous for a character as self-aware as he is.
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Harder to defend is her disingenuous explanation of flip-flopping on the Asian trade agreement.
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I don't think he told her to give disingenuous answers to questions throughout the campaign.
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Conservative groups criticized the speech as disingenuous, saying Mr. Biden was trying to rewrite history.
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More than anything, consumers see it as disingenuous, and both sides are left with suspicions.
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Apparently, lots of her detractors thought she was disingenuous in her intentions on the show.
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This was just part of what felt anachronous and, ultimately, disingenuous about The 13th Floor.
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Iranian officials have criticized U.S. offers of aid during the virus crisis as being disingenuous.
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I know it sounds disingenuous, but I swear to God I didn't see this coming.
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Faith here is nothing more than a disingenuous mask that veils viciousness and backward delusion.
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It is misleading and disingenuous of Trump's attorneys to cling to this patently ridiculous defense.
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I would be disingenuous if I did not acknowledge the imperfections in the Clinton candidacy.
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She attacks modern feminism ("priggish, disingenuous, unforgiving") as if it had put her on trial.
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A disingenuous State of the Union is the worst course that the President could take.
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"This is an absurd and disingenuous question," Antonopoulos told the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel in November.
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But she is apparently surprised that her aunt's plantation friends are racist, which seems … disingenuous.
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Lam spoke of her concern for the victim's family, which some opponents criticized as disingenuous.
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Caving to the disingenuous outrage, Bee and TBS, which airs her show, both issued apologies.
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But bringing up other victims to discredit the Black Lives Matter movement is pretty disingenuous.
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"While it would be disingenuous to claim that those two are not at least guilty of exercising incredibly poor judgment, it would be equally disingenuous for anyone who really knows the modern-day bureau to insinuate that the organization is plotting from within," Campbell wrote.
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So to spin this latest twist in the story as much ado about nothing is disingenuous.
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To say that the AR-15 can "be turned into" a killing machine is wholly disingenuous.
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MATT BENNETT, CO-FOUNDER, THIRD WAY: Look, I don&apost think it&aposs disingenuous at all.
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"I think his statement was dishonest and disingenuous," Gillibrand said on CNN's Anderson Cooper 360 Wednesday.
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To do it just to pick a random name seems like a money grab and disingenuous.
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You're already being disingenuous from the moment you tried to justify your logic over black safety.
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A sole focus on saviour signings, as exciting as they are for any fan, is disingenuous.
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I nod my head and smile, and it hurts my cheeks for how disingenuous it is.
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To be clear, I'm not pointing out these rhetorical techniques because I think they're somehow disingenuous.
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It's consistently a bit off-putting, because so much of it seems either disingenuous or delusional.
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Abhishek Deshpande, oil and gas analyst at Natixis, said Saudi Arabia was disingenuous in blaming Iran.
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Saturday Night Live rightly skewered this trend: Detractors often see this practice as exploitative and disingenuous.
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We believe that they're always being disingenuous and we don't look see them as human beings.
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In any case, there's nothing to be gained from posting disingenuous open letters to the competition.
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But efforts by conspiracy-peddling partisans to conflate the Clinton and Trump investigations are knowingly disingenuous.
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The burdensome payday rule was formed on the basis of the CFPB's disingenuous "debt-trap" narrative.
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The whole story is anti-immigration rhetoric at its most heated, most disingenuous, and most disgusting.
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Often when a celebrity is tapped to front a beauty campaign, it feels disingenuous at best.
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"Utility-style regulation" is ultimately a disingenuous metaphor here for what Title II regulation actually accomplishes.
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The conflation of telecommunications provider with edge provider, social media and press outlet is extremely disingenuous.
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Underlying all of the pious and disingenuous cant of their crusade is a terrifying logical consistency.
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If that is your best evidence you're either being profoundly disingenuous to your readers or stupid.
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If he wasn't being entirely disingenuous when he said that, he really was being unforgivably stupid.
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Coaches of slow-tempo teams try to create disingenuous rules to slow down up-tempo teams.
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But people who use this sexism to justify criminalising men who buy sex are being disingenuous.
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It seems disingenuous when the show pretends to be chaste while still reveling in every scandal.
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Pence was plainly disingenuous Tuesday when it came to defending his own past statements about Putin.
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"It would be disingenuous to say that it's not something we're thinking about," Ms. O'Malley said.
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Do you think net neutrality advocates are being disingenuous sometimes when they talk about this issue?
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Both of these claims are disingenuous to the cultural cachet that replicas are beginning to accrue.
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To act as if this sort of thing doesn't happen in thousands of families is disingenuous.
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Are there moments when "What Happened" is wearying, canned and disingenuous, spinning events like a top?
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It is fiscally disingenuous to deny birth control coverage and then bemoan unintended pregnancies and abortion.
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However I find it deeply disingenuous to claim that this is somehow about defending free speech.
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I believe Coffman is disingenuous for failing to acknowledge the fully established science of climate change.
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This is why she's using a disingenuous process argument to explain away the Democrats' buyer's remorse.
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But the carrot element is a staple of the Pyongyang playbook, entirely disingenuous and rather predictable.
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CNN stuck with Lord even when he had made clearly disingenuous or just plain ridiculous comments.
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And I don't think he's being disingenuous, I think he is a chameleon in that way.
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On the contrary: Its misogyny and racism strike me as perfectly deliberate, if also mostly disingenuous.
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And then to even enter those spaces you're going to be privileged, so I felt disingenuous.
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Dean Blunt has an exhibition on at the Cubitt Artists gallery in Angel, it's running from the 28th of January to the 28th of February and, to my mind, it's funny and disingenuous in the same way that all the best Dean Blunt is funny and disingenuous.
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Facebook emphasized that its investigation to find and root out disingenuous activity on its platform is ongoing.
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As disingenuous as some of the fury at Mr Dijsselbloem may be, it gets at something real.
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Mrs May's response that the economy has done better since the referendum than economists forecast is disingenuous.
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When tasked with translating someone whose words they find reprehensible, translators can feel inauthentic, disingenuous and duplicitous.
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That's why it's somewhat disingenuous to paint Facebook in particular as a great equalizer in national politics.
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Understating the threat will feel disingenuous and condescending; overstatement creates panic and often overreaction from the government.
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And, crucially, the "misunderstanding" at the center of this meme can be deliberate, accidental, disingenuous, or ironic.
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It's unfair and disingenuous for anyone to attribute this to any sort of discrimination or art censorship.
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It feels disingenuous, like YouTube is hiding its uglier side under a carpet while showing guests around.
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When universities and Silicon Valley geeks scoff at national-security restrictions they are being naive or disingenuous.
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Whether Uber is disingenuous in its efforts, Huffington's place on the board may help — to an extent.
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That doesn't necessarily make it disingenuous, but there's also a lot of self-victimization in the statement.
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GUILFOYLE: It&aposs so disingenuous now, because they got caught with the hand in the cookie jar.
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"I love the humor added with the 'be best' ornament – delightfully tacky and disingenuous!" a person added.
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She points out the way some harassers try to bait her into Twitter feuds with disingenuous arguments.
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Ayanna Pressley, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Rashida Tlaib, should leave the country so his comments appeared disingenuous.
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This is what really happened, and Samsung should retract this press release as it's misleading and disingenuous.
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The like-your-plan-keep-your-plan pitch was not only disingenuous, but was also self-defeating.
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The company has partnered with Disconnect to include scripts that prevent your browser from loading disingenuous content.
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It's not just that so many of the movie's heavy-handed Feminist Moments come across as disingenuous.
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It would be funny, if the future of the internet didn't depend on this incredibly disingenuous maneuvering.
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But the argument is especially disingenuous coming from Trump, who recently mocked endangered animal protections in California.
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Worse, goes the charge, it is making the disingenuous claim that this will help employers create jobs.
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California officials slammed the Thursday announcement, and accused the Trump administration of being disingenuous in its talks.
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Several digital forensic experts and law enforcement officials said the companies were being disingenuous in invoking security.
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The word these boys were looking for is actually "disingenuous," which means lacking in candor and sincerity.
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That makes this week's anniversary celebration for Myth and Measurement misleading at best, and disingenuous at worst.
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Until that's the case — if it ever is — it's disingenuous to argue those services are real competition.
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To deny that this doesn't occur or pretend it isn't an important issue facing us is disingenuous.
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"To say there's no collusion when we haven't seen the report… I think is disingenuous," she said.
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Feel-good rhetoric (and disingenuous politicking) aside, the Amendment has failed to deliver on any of Sen.
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McConnell's allies argue that Democrats' attempts to pin congressional dysfunction on McConnell are pure politics and disingenuous.
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Any implication that egg freezing guarantees women the ability to have children in the future is disingenuous.
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He has a talent for balancing opposing ideals, sometimes to the extent of appearing disingenuous or oxymoronic.
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That possibly feels a bit disingenuous for those whose imaginations ran wild after playing that first episode.
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Her work has been criticized as "disingenuous," and it's true that Ms. Kaur stays remarkably on brand.
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People who use 2027 distribution tables to say tax plans hurt the middle class are being disingenuous.
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This is a little disingenuous; if any generation has seamlessly aligned feminism with capitalism, it is Greer's.
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Despite detractors' disingenuous cries of "stale" evidence, like faded memories, the quality of evidence matters, not time.
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It is a long, stupid, disingenuous and incoherent defense, signed by an angry gorilla with a Sharpie.
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" Jamil Smith, Rolling Stone: "Mollifying disingenuous, intellectually bereft criticism from Republicans about fairness shouldn't be a concern.
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Logan's brother Tyree Bonds described his meeting with Buttigieg shortly after his brother was killed as disingenuous.
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Your first claim, "Abuse of Power," is a completely disingenuous, meritless, and baseless invention of your imagination.
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Mr. Davis's comparison of the hearing on Thursday to the Watergate or Iran-Contra hearings is disingenuous.
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The diplomatic and security implications of a deliberate and disingenuous unraveling of the JCPOA would be dire.
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Avoiding the appearance of making judgments by appealing to the marketplace of ideas is, at best, disingenuous.
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He responded with a decidedly uneven performance that unintentionally highlighted a disingenuous claim of his campaign strategists.
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On the other hand, either leader might conclude the other is disingenuous and scuttle any future negotiations.
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But it is a bit disingenuous that anybody thinks state recycling subsidies would promote the Christian religion.
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"This White House has been a little disingenuous when they say they're adhering to past practices," Moss said.
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However, we have gathered a lot of circumstantial yet compelling evidence that some of these disclaimers are disingenuous.
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But according to Feldman, it took a few months for Amazon to remove the hundreds of disingenuous reviews.
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This is illogical and intellectually disingenuous, and that's how Altman's approach to Thiel has been this whole time.
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Still, what makes West Ham's "2365 days argument" so laughably disingenuous is the actual text of the lease.
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But the internet definitely overreacts to everything and is capable of being just as disingenuous as monolithic corporations.
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It felt a bit disingenuous to not also share the struggle it took for me to get here.
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Hidalgo says hearing the "most typical and predictable choice of Smiths song" felt disingenuous to longtime Smiths enthusiasts.
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But third-party security experts question whether Assange has been disingenuous about what he knows about the attacks.
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The claim in your letter that your litigation efforts speed up on-boarding a CEO disingenuous or delusional.
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Many say it's "aesthetically good stuff" but that they can't get behind the "disingenuous" message of the brand.
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The C.I.A. officers and Obama administration officials fencing with Senate staffers are portrayed as disingenuous or even malicious.
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In that respect, she is just as disingenuous as was President Obama, who pledged transformation but promoted compromise.
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They will continue to defend their practices in disingenuous ways until we force them to change their ways.
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But viewing most sequels and franchise expansions as truly reinventions can feel more than a bit disingenuous too.
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To the Editor: Am I the only one who thinks that this essay is just a tad disingenuous?
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A second disingenuous but somewhat effective argument, some Democrats conceded, was that the military aid has been released.
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" Kevin Purdy, a writer for iFixit, hits even harder, saying some of the repairs Apple performs are "disingenuous.
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And to claim that Haspel contributed to efforts to "cover up" the program's existence is nonsensical and disingenuous.
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It's disingenuous for President Trump to suggest it's all about 'ISIS fighters' when the target is Kurdish forces.
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Still, Duguay has found that about half the candidates give a "wrong" answer — that is, a disingenuous one.
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Sanders tops the group's scorecard, so to pretend they don't have a preference could come off as disingenuous.
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Any claims that the next administration or the country is "going back on its word" will be disingenuous.
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Attacking him for being rich without providing context into how he earned his money is disingenuous at best.
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The demands by Trump and his congressional allies to reveal the whistle blower's identity is a disingenuous diversion.
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Plus, a lyric dissing Bill Cosby seems disingenuous after Kanye loosed this tweet proclaiming the embattled comedian's innocence.
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The three seasoned officials withstood an onslaught of presidential tweets and disingenuous Congressional attempts to twist the truth.
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This doesn't mean that the young conservatives who want a carbon dividend are being disingenuous in any way.
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It is "disingenuous" and "false," Mr. Lhota said for the city to claim the governor's plans were unilateral.
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And as they've done before, both sides claim the other is being a tad disingenuous on some points.
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She finds it "disingenuous," but it was made clear for a Watsi patient she donated to more recently.
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There was a time when I thought the addition of an "x" from strangers and professional acquaintances slightly disingenuous.
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"I think Secretary Clinton knows that what she says is very disingenuous," Sanders said of his record on guns.
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Take a Knee, My Ass (I Won't Take a Knee) is dumb, disingenuous, and devoid of any redeeming qualities.
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Jordan stresses that people aren't being purely selfish or disingenuous when they're expressing moral outrage on behalf of others.
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" And I was like, "This is the most disingenuous and hilarious thing I have ever seen in my life.
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" Grassley, in his response to the Justice Department, took issue with that statement, calling it "disingenuous and extremely disturbing.
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Mr Trump stokes up such polarisation by defining his opponents as foolish, out-of-touch, disingenuous or actively vicious.
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"It would be disingenuous of me to say I wouldn't want it to go viral," he says of Shinder.
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But including a woman or person of color who has no connection to the position is disingenuous and deceptive.
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Attacking Clinton for wanting to be a part of the recount effort, then, seems either disingenuous or ill-informed.
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Ayotte's hairsplitting about what would technically qualify as an endorsement seems disingenuous, not to mention insulting to voters' intelligence.
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This is disingenuous, as Mr McDonnell, a long-standing opponent of the European Union as a capitalist club, knows.
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While other companies are caving under the slightest pressure from disingenuous trolls, Ubisoft is telling them to kick sand.
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All this is a game of narcissism and disingenuous grievances that smart comedians like Wolf rightfully refuse to play.
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Its supporters insist that they're trying to protect women's health, but reproductive rights advocates find such claims deeply disingenuous.
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I can't help but feel these statements, the same ones trotted out every time something similar happens, are disingenuous.
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But after not making the payments during the Obama administration, making them now could make Republicans look disingenuous. Rep.
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Fanning the flames of another birther critique—while carefully distancing themselves from the actual position—has a disingenuous feel.
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But his claims that his government had co-operated and that the decision proved Mr Ruto's innocence were disingenuous.
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To suggest that current members of the Judiciary Committee are attempting to impose one is both false and disingenuous.
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"The argument that policing in Scotland is devolved and must therefore meet its own costs is disingenuous," Steele continued.
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Buying carbon credits and offsets and relying on disingenuous policies such as the CPP are no substitutes for technology.
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The argument, made by some, that it can't match SLS's ultimate 130 mT lift capacity is a little disingenuous.
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Kalman's claim that his organization is "fighting to rein in the abuses" of payday loans is disingenuous and misleading.
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It would become evident that the raison d'être for her nomination — to break any 4-4 tie — was disingenuous.
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Why make a disingenuous offer and your poor nephew feel like a money-grubber for choosing your preferred outcome?
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However, it's unfair and disingenuous to equate these mistakes with the outbreak of fake news in the last year.
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Plaza is an excellent comic actress, and as her blank-eyed and disingenuous foil, Elizabeth Olsen does just fine.
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It's charming without seeming naive, self-effacing without seeming disingenuous, and calming without sending the listener into a coma.
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Two: It's borderline disingenuous if he thanks the team – when he also suspects 'they' are out to get him.
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But many critics have noted that it nonetheless seems disingenuous in light of Johansson's involvement with past casting controversies.
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"The N.F.L. continues a disingenuous approach to player grievances, refusing to match the urgency of this moment," he said.
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They're optimistic that voters will see the attacks linking Brooks to Pelosi as disingenuous, and they might have point.
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He also made clear that he thought Mr. Trump's offer to talk with Iran's leaders was disingenuous at best.
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Coming from a woman who has made a career of being the victim, it's a move that feels disingenuous.
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As we've all seen, "optimizing for engagement" all too often means optimizing for outrage, for polarization, for disingenuous misinformation.
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"I found the interviews a bit disingenuous, with him framing himself as a victim," Mr. King said on Thursday.
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"They're hijacking the scientific process in a disingenuous way to sow doubt and jeopardize public health," Dr. Schillinger said.
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It's an amusing episode (it's the one with Ms. Silverman) but also feels disingenuous given what has come before.
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The concern troll airs disingenuous worries, sows doubt, saps energy, has reservations, worries that things are going too far.
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Comfortable conversation is crucial to Gen Z, and if that is lacking, the brand could appear disingenuous, Amjadi said.
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But Mr. Comey and other F.B.I. officials regarded it as disingenuous in an investigation that was so widely known.
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To clump them all into one group as the [ New York Post] article seems to is disingenuous and ignorant.
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When Warren's later statements called Soleimani's killing an "assassination," she was criticized by pundits and centrists for being disingenuous.
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"It would be totally disingenuous if I didn't acknowledge that being my father's son has helped me," he said.
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It "would simply have been dismissed as a disingenuous and cowardly attempt to restore the stock price," he said.
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In the most shocking and utterly disingenuous move, some Democrats did far worse than ignorantly throw out disgraceful epithets.
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If this sounds disingenuous, particularly as Carnival cruises and the Kardashians descend upon Havana -- well, that's because it is.
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The Republican memo's attempt to disparage the intelligence agencies by highlighting their use of the Steele dossier is disingenuous.
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To be clear, it is both illogical and disingenuous for our detractors to perpetuate irrational fears of increased smoking.
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If men still need to learn about feminism, if they still need to be introduced to it, it's disingenuous.
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Mr. Fields said those who claimed to have been surprised by the absence of Palestinian speakers were being disingenuous.
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Over the years, Goldacre has taken on everyone from sloppy journalists to pharmaceutical executives, vitamin proprietors, and disingenuous academics.
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Cutting benefits now to avoid future cuts is disingenuous at best and indicates that solvency is not the primary goal.
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Brief brushes with fame apparently made Underwood stiff, which, according to the former footballer, made him seem "disingenuous" on camera.
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His adviser, Symone Sanders, tweeted that the flak he was getting was disingenuous and deliberately misconstruing what Biden actually said.
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Some conservatives say that allocating the money at all would be disingenuous after members railed against the payments for years.
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It's hard to imagine something positive for the Canadians coming from Trump, a disingenuous player lacking a sense of fairness.
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"It would be disingenuous to say it doesn't worry me," Mr Temer admitted at a press conference on November 27th.
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At the close of a letter in which he berated Republicans for their disingenuous cartography, Mr Wolf extended a hand.
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At this point, I think to perpetuate the tired "laptops are for creation, tablets are for consumption" rhetoric is disingenuous.
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But, I would just note how disingenuous it is to suggest that Republicans are conspiring to deepen this social problem.
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It's simply disingenuous to claim support for the ongoing protests while calling for them to take place in the shadows.
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Clinton was disingenuous to cite Mr. Krugman's support without making it clear that he was not offering an economic opinion.
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But the economists say it is "both false and disingenuous" to contend that outlawing agency fees won't decimate the unions.
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What would be so amusing, if it wasn't so disingenuous, is that Hillary is appalled and disgusted at Trump's language.
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It's also downright disingenuous to assert that disliking Barack Obama and Clinton—both centrist figures—makes someone an unhinged extremist.
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Forgiving someone to come off as the better person seems worthy at best and disingenuous at worst, but Belicki disagrees.
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It's disingenuous because their intention all along has simply been to make it more difficult for disadvantaged groups to vote.
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It would be disingenuous to say that I'm unfazed by a life in which I never explore my sexual fluidity.
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That was a bit disingenuous: had she been less slippery in her e-mail arrangements, she would be less mistrusted.
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"It was pandering and disingenuous," said Representative Marcia Fudge of Ohio, who has since endorsed Senator Kamala Harris of California.
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" He added, "It is disingenuous to suggest that we are, somehow, holding back funding that we could spend on schools.
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He was open and polite to the members of the audience, and appropriately sarcastic and dismissive of Fox's disingenuous moderators.
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His "aim" does not include fixing a problem or making improvements, and the rationale has been vague, unfounded, or disingenuous.
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" Schultz said that he does not want to run as a Democrat because it would force him to be "disingenuous.
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If there's a story [about a person of color], it would seem very disingenuous to have someone else tell it.
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But to deny the influence of Díaz's work or the significance of the perspective from which he wrote seemed disingenuous.
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Mr. Hariri's resignation announcement, made under what clearly was Saudi coercion, was widely seen as disingenuous in Lebanon and elsewhere.
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk has said the UAW is using "disingenuous or outright false" tactics to lead the unionization effort.
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It was a transparent and disingenuous misreading of political blockages created almost entirely by Republicans as a matter of policy.
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That's particularly true as the miles and kilos rack up, and Earl's somewhat Forrest Gump-like innocence feels increasingly disingenuous.
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White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham called Kelly's comments criticizing the President "disingenuous" and said she was "disappointed" Thursday morning.
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But I think it's a bit disingenuous because if you really think of human intelligence, it is not very general.
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It is disingenuous to argue that athletic excellence "shows and develops character" to the same degree it might once have.
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To compare the sweeping efforts by the Russians to the writings of a handful of Ukrainian officials is simply disingenuous.
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Doug Collins of Georgia, called Nadler's move "illogical and disingenuous" because the Justice Department is still negotiating with the panel.
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His insistence that he does not know why the team treats him so poorly is, at the very least, disingenuous.
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So, forgive the preaching, but talking of a safe future seems disingenuous when endangering the lives and livelihoods of others.
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When Mr. Bannon told The New York Times that the media should "keep its mouth shut," he was being disingenuous.
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The relatives and friends of the man Mr. Jackson killed, Timothy Caughman, called the white supremacist's remarks disingenuous and insulting.
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It was fun but it all felt a little disingenuous, like it was more about the fashion than the music.
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That said, Douthat characterizes Francis's approach to divorced-and-remarried couples and the Eucharist as something of a disingenuous workaround.
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This proclivity toward expedient alteration is precisely what fuels some people's sense of her in particular as disingenuous and even dishonest.
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Not that first post-election post, his horribly disingenuous dodge that improbably asserted that Facebook could not have influenced the election.
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It's willfully disingenuous for the NIC to tout the benefits of any particular policy while knowingly not enforcing other similar rules.
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Wade," Judge Carlton Reeves wrote in the ruling, He added that the effort was the "disingenuous calculations of the Mississippi Legislature.
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But onlookers pointed out that she didn't actually apologize for using the racial slur, making the post seem patronizing and disingenuous.
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"Pretty disingenuous of him to say he doesn't think kids will believe what he's saying, as an influencer," Nerd City says.
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Focus groups show reminding America that she's a grandmother seems disingenuous, but she needs to be humanized and made more likable.
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The pop star said she's the victim of "character assassination," but her original claims of ignorance and betrayal seem disingenuous now.
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The cardinal sin of most judges and justices, Mr Posner argues, is their disingenuous allegiance to a formal conception of law.
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To pretend that doing the right thing is somehow beyond his control is disingenuous at best and morally bankrupt at worst.
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But in the section of the debate devoted to the economy, Trump's answers were disingenuous at best and stupid at worst.
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I am male and to ask me to present or live or work as anything other than that would be disingenuous.
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" Asked if Warren and Sanders are being insincere on what they can accomplish, Hickenlooper said, "I don't think they're being disingenuous.
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The Trump administration's justification for Comey's firing -- that he mishandled the Hillary Clinton email scandal -- is a transparently disingenuous fig leaf.
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Ideologically conservative griping aside, this is kind of a really weird and somewhat disingenuous way to make a case for yourself?
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Tyrie said Griffith-Jones was "pretty disingenuous" in downplaying the market sensitivity of the decision to drop the sector-wide review.
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"If there's a true red flag, you owe it to them to not be disingenuous and pretend it's okay," she says.
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First, it would be disingenuous to write about ICON without mentioning the cloud of tragedy which still hangs over the company.
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"It's SENATOR WARREN and pretending you've read it is inauthentic and disingenuous," former MSNBC contributor Goldie Taylor said in a tweet.
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However, this nonpartisan gesture is disingenuous given the appointment of the attorney general (AG) is not made with the same care.
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" Mr. Stewart said that he talked about the network a lot because it was "truly a terrible, cynical, disingenuous news organization.
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The Tribune added that Dolinar said she hasn&apost received any communication from the division and felt the apology was disingenuous.
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The BLM relocation is moving full speed ahead and to suggest the Department has not cooperated with Congress is completely disingenuous.
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Of course, with precious weeks remaining before Election Day and Trump sliding in the polls, the pivot comes across as disingenuous.
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READ: The debate as it happened "I think that Secretary Clinton knows that what she says is very disingenuous," Sanders said.
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News of the positive test leaked out to Croatian news media in late July, which made his Wimbledon withdrawal appear disingenuous.
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We've seen the tired disingenuous use of "diversity" in the name of the public image and government funding—real-life wise.
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Claiming that any radical and necessary plans to mitigate climate change, such as the Green New Deal, is "unrealistic" is disingenuous.
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"[B]ut to call it something new or different seems disingenuous, unless of course they have published ... data that says otherwise."
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She labeled elements of Richman's testimony "disingenuous" and "misleading," and stated that she gave his research "no weight" in her decision.
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But a frame-by-frame analysis actually understates how disingenuous it is for Sanders to try to tie himself to Obama.
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FRED KAMENY, CHAPEL HILL, N.C. To the Editor: The howls of outrage over the Trump-Putin meeting strike me as disingenuous.
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Any thought that he is taking a principled stand on the trade issue is disingenuous and self-serving and rings hollow.
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But Cuomo is being disingenuous at best when he says that Fredo is an insult that's equivalent to the n-word.
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"It would be disingenuous to say that this was all part of the master plan," Blues General Manager Doug Armstrong said.
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This latest ploy illustrates the disingenuous nature of complaints from Trump and other Republicans that social media is biased against conservatives.
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Anne Kessler, who often makes ready entertainment of posh, disingenuous characters, gets superb one-liners as C., an anorexic former doctor.
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Offering a plainly disingenuous explanation for the firing is something you do because you don't feel the need to outsmart anyone.
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"I thought that the notion was disingenuous and ever since then it's put a bad taste in my mouth," she said.
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In terms of the memo itself, the arguments leveled against it in recent days have been exposed as hollow and disingenuous.
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So I could see how if we did do that, a DJ in Vegas seems disingenuous, there's like a dissonance there.
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Over the years, modernization has become legislative code for disingenuous efforts to weaken ESA protections, ultimately likely leading to more extinctions.
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United fired back calling American's complaint "disingenuous" and said that the plan for the gates dates back more than a year.
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Chuck Grassley, the Senate Finance chairman, however, accused Democrats of being disingenuous in their rationale for why they wanted the returns.
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"In a separate statement to Business Insider Monday afternoon, a Match Group spokesperson called the ProPublica/CJI story "disingenuous" and "inaccurate.
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Ted Strickland of being disingenuous on his commitment to gun control while Strickland's campaign panned the accusations for failing to stick.
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His account of how Republicans in Congress supposedly were willing to cooperate with President Obama after his 2009 inauguration is disingenuous.
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Basically, I think mentioning Pakistan in this statement is disingenuous and misleading since the issue at hand was never about BES.
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Some in Parliament are still holding out hope that the deal can be renegotiated, though this is a somewhat disingenuous argument.
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That he's nice looking or listens to rap music doesn't make him an effective messenger; instead he looks confused, disingenuous or stupid.
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Sanders, in return, called Clinton's attack on his gun position "disingenuous," adding he was "disappointed" in Clinton attacking his health care plan.
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These recipes aren't disingenuous: They just exist in an entirely separate time-space continuum where no one has to perform outside labor.
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And even though Google supports it now, Gleuck is still hammering the firm with the most disingenuous accusation he could possibly muster.
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It makes "The British are frantically Googling what the EU is, hours after voting to leave it" absurdly disingenuous without better numbers.
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Instead, there was red meat for his base, an overdose of corny reality television and a Teleprompter speech riddled with disingenuous rhetoric.
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The idea of texting your partner sweet notes because you're told to, not because you want to yourself, felt forced and disingenuous.
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Cheek kisses are a safer bet than air kisses, which can appear disingenuous if the person you're embracing isn't used to them.
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Comparing immediate real-world, physical threats with the abstract menace of disturbing images online is clumsy at best, and disingenuous at worst.
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But if the P20 Pro does have hardware stabilization, it makes the argument that Huawei's software is a replacement a little disingenuous.
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Ronald Reagan's disingenuous claim never to have left the Democratic Party ("It left me") helped him woo millions of blue-collar Democrats.
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Something about the immediacy, the simplicity, the cursory nature of hitting that button seemed, and still seems, a little disingenuous to me.
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I had been a disingenuous asshole as long as I can remember, so this was going to take a lot of effort.
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"I got the advice not to use the word 'lobbying,' but I thought the word 'advocate' was disingenuous," DeLancey told The Hill.
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To call the Olympics a bad investment would be disingenuous, because few actually believe the Games produce any return of public value.
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There are chase sequences, a disingenuous doctor, organ transplants and a rabbit eating cabbages - all of which form part of the story.
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Yet ironically, routine objections to each individual conservative the Times hires suggest some liberals are engaged in a similarly disingenuous argumentative style.
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If the four of us got on stage and tried to mimic other, more common bands, it would come off as disingenuous.
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Given your past support for border security funding that included physical barriers under previous administrations, your current 'outrage' seems disingenuous at best.
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So Russia's criticism is disingenuous because it's simply more of what Japan already has that Russia has not protested in the past.
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No amount of lofty supposition can camouflage the overwhelming feeling that the director has been disingenuous in his choice of a subject.
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In a perverse way, it's easier to become incensed at an opponent who makes self-righteous arguments than polite but disingenuous ones.
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But it's a bit disingenuous to announce such a change to promote fast-loading sites without even a mention of Instant Articles.
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At the same time, I also hear and agree with… just the whining and money they spent certainly came across as disingenuous.
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It's taking us just a few years of disingenuous politics to hurl us backward to a place many of us never imagined.
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Representative Doug Collins of Georgia, the Judiciary Committee's top Republican, welcomed the Justice Department's invitation and blasted Democrats' "illogical and disingenuous" demands.
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Greg Abbott to say, "He was not supposed to have access to a gun, so how did this happen?" is laughably disingenuous.
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Given your past support for border security funding that included physical barriers under previous administrations, your current "outrage" seems disingenuous at best.
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It's a disingenuous defense of a president who was caught red-handed trying to force Ukraine to actually interfere in an election.
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Mr. Shepherdson said on Twitter that he believed Mr. Mnuchin was being disingenuous in his characterization of the impact of the tariffs.
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A cursory glance at any of the content posted there is sure to leave the impression of a disingenuous and foolhardy person.
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While it is true that his administration could have been pressured by interventionists in Congress to do worse, Rice's statement is disingenuous.
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A neat resolution would have been disingenuous: Even the novel's closing pages provide only a partial testimony of truth, love and faith.
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" The first article of impeachment is "completely disingenuous, meritless, and baseless invention of your imagination," while the second is "preposterous and dangerous.
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Mr. Broetzmann said companies sometimes rely on "disingenuous approaches," which can be vexing or meaningless to customers, to internally measure their performance.
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" He added, "Any organization run by a 60+ year old that says that it isn't in transition is either naïve or disingenuous.
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When so much truth is shielded from the light, the hierarchy is able to float its disingenuous claims about having cleaned house.
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"He is so disingenuous that when he starts talking about unity it is almost laughable," said Representative Jim McGovern, Democrat of Massachusetts.
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So it is kind of strange that, at the last minute, they have pivoted all their attacks against me, and disingenuous attacks.
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Besides, this sudden concern for women's welfare sounds incredibly disingenuous from a president who has been accused of sexual assault by multiple women.
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But what if the dead were so unspeakably and irredeemably corrupt that to talk of anything else would be disingenuous and revising history?
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The United States says it has no immediate plans to deploy such missiles in Europe and has dismissed Putin's warnings as disingenuous propaganda.
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But it is disingenuous to claim there is no one left to negotiate with Pyongyang simply because their names are unfamiliar to journalists.
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However, it's disingenuous of FCC leadership to treat it as though it were, especially in the direction opposite that suggested by industry leadership.
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Rather than a disingenuous, heterosexuality-preserving workaround, the notion of "just dudes being dudes" is, perhaps accidentally, the seed of male-male desire.
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"Everybody has an error rate, and any politician that pretends that they don't is already viewed as disingenuous by their constituency," he said.
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While the language of genocide seems disingenuous to progressives now, Williams's characters remind us that in the years leading up to Roe v.
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Some probate judges in Alabama are seeing right through Judge Moore's disingenuous attempt to mask his loathing for gay rights in judicial procedure.
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Talking to disingenuous bow tie Tucker Carlson on Fox News on Wednesday, Trump admitted that the AHCA screws over some of his voters.
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That none of these facts was acknowledged by Pai suggests a disingenuous argument, and calls into question the sincerity of his other positions.
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Of course, that pansexuality isn't actually represented in Solo: A Star Wars Story, which makes the whole "pansexual" label a little bit disingenuous.
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Another shot, where Weiner sits on the subway, theatrically looking around at the positive headlines about him, feels artificial, disingenuous, and wholly constructed.
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So, suggesting that folks are sitting around their kitchen tables imagining how they might be strategic in improving their collective lot is disingenuous.
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But Democrats think that's a disingenuous way to rebuild the nation's crumbling infrastructure if there are no new revenues dedicated to the issue.
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Facebook is very obviously not just a tech tool, and to claim otherwise is disingenuous and downright dangerous — as others have eloquently argued.
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Why it matters: It's a disingenuous slam of the media given everything the White House has said so far about its trade moves.
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It feels wrong to speak in hyperbole, and yet declaring this anything less than The Greatest Television Performance of All Time seems disingenuous.
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It'd be so disingenuous if I didn't vote, so I'm either going to have to make a really hardcore decision the day of.
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Her claim on Today that, 'I'm not going to get a dime,' as executive producer of her new reality TV show is disingenuous.
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Then, Russia resumed its disingenuous grandstanding and the Syrian government, with Russia's support, went back to indiscriminately bombing rebel-held areas of Aleppo.
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In an exceptionally cruel and disingenuous ruling, the Supreme Court threw out Mr. Thompson's award in 2011, by a 5-to-4 vote.
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This undoubtedly makes the sentiment of his condemnation feel disingenuous to anyone who has been on the receiving end of the Sanders mob.
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But the part that feels disingenuous is that I don't think it's on their own volition — we've got a white nationalist in office.
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Some had come across posts that struck them as disingenuous, but said that it's impossible to know the intention behind anyone's social output.
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Democrats continued to blame Republicans for being disingenuous and untrustworthy, demanding they get serious and stop kicking the can further down the road.
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The disingenuous logic of this attack on bedrock environmental law is that clean air is a costly job killer and drives manufacturers overseas.
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Jackson also took issue with what she called the department's "disingenuous" argument that the Judiciary Committee wouldn't be meaningfully harmed by a stay.
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The beauty community galvanized to defend their idyllic Westbrook from what she said was Charles's disingenuous, seedy behavior, turning against him en masse.
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Basically, the administration isn't looking at the whole picture and are being disingenuous because they're smart enough to look at the whole picture.
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That was one of several times that Tillerson declined to answer for Exxon's actions — arguably a disingenuous strategy, but probably an effective one.
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Yes, and this is partly because of companies being disingenuous about the continued benefit they derive from retaining the data of the dead.
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On Thursday, the disingenuous outrage was over Full Frontal host Samantha Bee calling Ivanka Trump "a feckless cunt" on her show Wednesday evening.
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"They know the Justice Department is working to negotiate even as they pursue contempt charges, making their move today illogical and disingenuous," Collins said.
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If you didn't have a problem with the system then but do now, you're either being disingenuous or you don't understand how probabilities work.
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It's easy to see how a disingenuous person might argue "Hey, stop looking for politics in everything!" but Agony is stuffed with political messages.
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Tucker Carlson, now a disingenuous Trump backer at Fox News, apparently no longer believes that the network is filled with mean and sick people.
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This is something major ISPs are already known to do, despite all the FCC chairman's disingenuous talk about "internet freedom" and "light-touch" regulation.
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His suggestion that "engineers" and "technologists" are the driving force behind how Verizon structures its service plans is sorely disingenuous—and bordering on bullshit.
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I also see the twist as a pretty shameful, disingenuous reading of the ethnic fluidity of anime characters, which itself has serious historical significance.
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Once again, the team is partnering with Disconnect to include lists of rules and domain names that prevent your browser from loading disingenuous content.
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What this all shows, then, is that the Trump-GOP campaign to paint Biden's actions in Ukraine as corrupt are disingenuous and clearly partisan.
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"It's not disingenuous, it's honest, and it's coming out of characters' mouths from an honest place, especially in that particular time," Mr. Jackson said.
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"I was feeling meh about acting at the time because with roles for teens, a lot of them are disingenuous or shallow," she said.
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The risk of the product is that some users or their contacts might find it inauthentic or disingenuous to send pre-scripted reengagement messages.
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"I don't believe that it is the right thing to ban a person for saying something that is factually incorrect," was his disingenuous response.
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" On the huge crowds who now gather outside the shows..."I understand that it's a way in, but equally, there's something disingenuous about that.
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The argument that memorials to Confederate soldiers, erected 60 years after the conflict, had anything to do with commemorating the dead was remarkably disingenuous.
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We didn't have branches in places like Thailand anymore and so it sort of is slightly disingenuous to sort of claim to be it.
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His primary concern is that Republicans are being disingenuous about what their bill can do, and will pay a steep price when it fails.
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The tweets also felt disingenuous in the shadow of widespread voter suppression that undermines black people's ability to even participate in the political process.
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I don't think it has to be in you taking your wig off; there's a lot of disingenuous people who wear their natural hair.
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But some Trump policies will be beneficial to the economy, and it would be disingenuous to ignore these and only focus on the negatives.
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Pretending James Comey is testifying only because the President is not invoking executive privilege is not only disingenuous, it borders on small-bore fraud.
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But Trump gave no number, which was flagged as disingenuous by Jeremy Bash, a CIA and Pentagon chief of staff during the Obama administration.
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"I think he's being a little disingenuous and I don't think that he's giving us all the information that we need," SAPD spokesman Sgt.
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The thing about Jack was that he made every friend he had feel like his best friend, and there was nothing disingenuous about that.
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The Trump game, applied to public service, is even more disingenuous than greenwashing because Ivanka has literally sacrificed nothing, not even a modest sum.
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So West's quick embrace by conservative media suggests its dismissal of celebrity political opinions as disingenuous, applicable only when the said celebrity is liberal.
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In general, the Trump administration's, or Trump's, efforts are very disingenuous, because European countries already agreed in 2014 to start increasing their military spending.
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Think about it: Those "best friends" necklaces only have two parts, and Taylor Swift's growing squad is seen as disingenuous (to say the least).
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I'm outraged by America's regressive climate change policies, especially since global warming disproportionately impacts women, and I don't feel disingenuous for suddenly caring more.
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As I noted on Wednesday, this is a disingenuous argument to make while the White House is blocking key first-hand witnesses from testifying.
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The Maduro government acts as though it can get away with repression and abuse just by making disingenuous promises about dialogue to foreign leaders.
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Ryanair, which does not recognise trade unions, dismissed Comer's letter as "disingenuous" and said it would not correspond with any newly formed pilot group.
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" J. Scott MacGregor, a Lilly spokesman, said in an email that "the rhetoric on drug pricing represents a disingenuous debate — pitting cost against value.
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So Rosenstein's memo was at best disingenuous and at worst deliberately misleading, neither of which the holder of his office can afford to be.
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New Zealand taking the actions that they are, being very suspicious of any improvement on algorithms being disingenuous, as has been proposed by Facebook.
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Since then, however, the bowl ban and and the vacated-wins punishment have been lifted, due in part to Penn State's (apparently disingenuous) cooperation.
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I agree with Block that it is disingenuous to pretend that Hatreon is not a customer of Tucows — only the thinnest membrane separates them.
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I might be coming around to liking Drake again simply because his posturing has moved from smarmy, disingenuous arrogance to reckless but honest arrogance.
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We're all outsiders; using the music that saved us as a wedge to keep others out of the scene is elitist, pretentious, and disingenuous.
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But it is disingenuous for Trump to claim he doesn't know the criminal justice system mistreats and over-penalizes black people for drug crimes.
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So in the couple instances where contenders just raved about where we got to work, it seemed a little disingenuous (to say the least).
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One thing that is clear is that it's disingenuous to use strong arguments for decriminalization as an excuse for aggressive state supported drug use.
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Duc is still begging for his dad's approval, proclaiming his celibacy and courting potential clients with all the disingenuous bravado of an infomercial pitchman.
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As travel bans and national quarantines have spread around the world faster than anyone thought possible, so have sometimes disingenuous and outright deceitful stories.
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Mr. McConnell's strategy belies the disingenuous Republican complaint that Democrats jammed the A.C.A., or Obamacare, into law in 2010 without sufficient analysis or discussion.
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Exxon has vigorously fought the charges, and maintains that the government's theory of its financial tools is flawed at best and, at worst, disingenuous.
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I know it sounds disingenuous to insist you had no idea that so-and-so liked you but with Colm*, I really didn't know.
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The arguments Trump's lawyers advanced Saturday largely fall flat, running the gamut from marginally convincing (at best) to transparently flimsy, outright misleading and disingenuous.
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" Deceptively edited video in hyperpartisan publications are the problem, he wrote -- "spreading disingenuous and dishonest information about political opponents and presenting it as news.
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In the past few years, as both consumers and employees demanded more of companies' sustainability plans, increased transparency has made disingenuous "greenwashing" less viable.
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So Mr. Bloomberg is being "more than a bit disingenuous when he says he 'inherited' it," said Jeffrey Fagan, a criminologist at Columbia University.
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Rotunno said during closing arguments it was "disingenuous" for prosecutors to argue that the six women who testified at Weinstein's trial had acted independently.
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Mr. Bharara's refusal to return the call was a disingenuous parting shot at the president, who had changed his mind about keeping him on.
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The glass, to me, is overflowing and anyone who tries to tell you different, I think, is simply being rigorous or worse, quite disingenuous.
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KR: Certainly at the early stages, I'd be disingenuous if I didn't say this is a nice alignment of a little moment in time.
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A.A.d city at the Grammys that people would knee jerk reject "White Privilege II," or at least smell a whiff of disingenuous grandstanding in it.
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The reality is that the argument McConnell was making was always disingenuous and driven, again, not by principle, but by the relentless pursuit of power.
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Zuckerberg's comments are disheartening and disingenuous, and they undercut his promises last week that he would finally start taking election interference campaigns on Facebook seriously.
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Certain protesters felt that the celebration was a disingenuous display from brands that pushed queer activists to the margins in favor of a mainstream agenda.
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However, Cisneros sought to frame Kim's DACA support as disingenuous, and cited her record in the state Assembly opposing a program to help undocumented students.
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When I ask her if she ever feels disingenuous, moderating r/exmormon without being, officially, an ex-Mormon, she pauses for a second before answering.
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Others rightfully pointed out that the movie does more than fat-shame, and that the premise also legitimizes several harmful and disingenuous conceptions about size.
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For nearly a month since he first received Mueller's report, Barr gave Congress and the American people an inaccurate and disingenuous account of Mueller's findings.
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And it's disingenuous of the media to press Democrats on that choice if they are unwilling to cover what the party leaders have to say.
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If you're selling an app to identify flowers, then this sort of language is merely disingenuous; when it's mushrooms you're spotting, it becomes potentially dangerous.
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I don't mean to imply that Hillary's attempt at internet humor feels disingenuous as a criticism of her campaign; rather, unlike Trump, she's a politician.
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And in Far Cry 5, a game that directly evokes some of the most malignant elements of American culture and politics, it feels particularly disingenuous.
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Our thought bubble: But, at the same time, it's disingenuous for an Amazon policy spox to tell NBC that AOC's criticism was a significant factor.
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To say this hasn't dampened my enthusiasm for his management would be disingenuous, even if my admiration for him refuses to sputter out and die.
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Even more important from a constitutional (if not a policy) perspective, Kennedy correctly argued that calling the Top 10 Percent system "race-neutral" is disingenuous.
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And it is particularly disingenuous for Badham to attribute those concerns to a "testosterone left" when women have criticized Clinton since she announced her candidacy.
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But shamelessly self-interested and probably contrary to his real views on the EU though it is, the mayor's move is perhaps not entirely disingenuous.
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The festering dynamics within the Middle East do in fact support the abandonment of that narrative, which has increasingly been exposed as deceitful and disingenuous.
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Unfortunately, Becerra's ignorant or disingenuous attack on nonprofit groups' political speech rights follows the shameful legacy of his predecessor (and now U.S. senator) Kamala Harris.
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In reality, ISPs only run afoul of these protections when they're engaging in anti-competitive behavior, making the hand-wringing over the financial impact disingenuous.
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But as Republicans proved in 2009, when they dragged their feet through months of disingenuous health care reform negotiations, delay can be its own reward.
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Collins said he felt Mueller's letter was "disingenuous in the way that was reported," adding he believes the friction between Mueller and Barr was mischaracterized.
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Speaking in Michigan, a state Trump hopes to win, Clinton said the Republican is disingenuous when he claims to be on the side of workers.
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His siblings suspect him of being disingenuous and have suggested he wants to preserve the house for political reasons, but Lee insisted that was untrue.
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"We have always paid our real estate taxes on a timely basis, and to say otherwise is totally disingenuous," a spokeswoman wrote to the Post.
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"We are gratified that the Court continues to reject Ms. Herzer's increasingly desperate and disingenuous attempts to depose Mr. Redstone," Loeb said in a statement.
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The lens through which I experience life is the same lens through which I experience video games, and to pretend otherwise would be entirely disingenuous.
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Pledging allegiance to the military through vague patriotic symbols and playing dress up isn't the same as helping veterans, and it's disingenuous to suggest otherwise.
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The other side(s): Curbelo's Democratic challenger, Debbie Mucarsel-Powell, is accusing the congressman of being ineffective and disingenuous with his work addressing climate change.
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But to end the story there in not exploring the actual issue (massive ISIS expansion) is either disingenuous, lazy, biased or all of the above.
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"Donald Trump's attacks on Senator Schumer are disingenuous and dishonest, as always," said Marge Baker of People for the American Way, a liberal advocacy group.
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That in some way we're supposed to be minding our business, and that it is somehow disingenuous to observe with the intention of just observing.
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This is one of the disingenuous arguments that the Trump administration has used to justify its proposal to give restaurant management complete control over tips.
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Unfortunately, she lost steam when she chose to attack Biden in what appeared to be a disingenuous criticism of Biden's general attitude toward working women.
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Iran has the networks, expertise, experience and strategic patience required to fight and win proxy wars at low cost and with plenty of disingenuous deniability.
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It was a compromise because I didn't want to be disingenuous to fans, but then of course, I didn't want to give away the story.
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It's telling that part of Kadyrov's disingenuous denial of violence in his Interfax interview involved him denying the existence of LGBTQ people in Chechnya altogether.
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"If I suggested I was surprised by the president's comments, I would be disingenuous," Stephenson told The Associated Press during an interview released on Thursday.
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In doing this, his remarks come across as disingenuous and abusive of his daughter's trauma, saying that his pain is somehow more painful than hers.
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But he argued Republicans are disingenuous even in their focus on mental health, pointing to the impact of proposed Medicaid cuts in ObamaCare repeal legislation.
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However disingenuous this move may have been—we never really leave Henry's head for William's—it provides a lovely point of view on the material.
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It's disingenuous to suggest that by introducing this punitive measure, Ofsted is somehow supporting struggling head teachers who don't know how to manage this issue.
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I'm not saying that this is disingenuous, but they're comfortable with them being overtly progressive, because they come across as soft and cuddly and nonthreatening.
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He usually refuses to walk back on his wilder statements even when he's offered an easy out, so the whole thing feels a bit disingenuous.
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However, his interview with Adweek does seem disingenuous since he either mislead the outlet or failed to correct them when they asked about his flight.
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Zuckerberg also claims that Facebook users were fully aware that Facebook's platform allowed for this type of sharing at the time, which seems.. disingenuous at best.
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"It's disingenuous for RBS to tell Mr. Hong to destroy evidence and then claim it is not trying to intimidate him into silence," he told Reuters.
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So suggesting that that is difficult to recognize all of a sudden when it's put in the context of a sexual advance is, I think, disingenuous.
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Congressman Devin Nunes, who has continued his absurd misdirection on FISA in service of the Trump White House, this time with a thoroughly disingenuous #ReleaseTheMemo campaign.
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It asked about his mental health and asked for his mental health records, which he found irrelevant and disingenuous, so he did not fill it out.
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Some suggested Spotify's policy was akin to censorship, although the claims were disingenuous — the artists were still available to stream, just not promoted on the platform.
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"We're still working out details, so there are unknowns," Stone wrote, in a note that comes across as disingenuous given Pinterest's own comments on the purchase.
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"It's really disingenuous to say to the American people that these policies have contributed toward 4.9 percent unemployment," said Representative Robert Pittenger, Republican of North Carolina.
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But to have a blanket rule because we're defining a whole class of people as bad, I think it's disingenuous, and I don't think it's right.
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"To suggest that President-elect Trump's victory didn't weigh as a factor in terms of the speaker's race would be disingenuous to suggest otherwise," Meadows said.
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Now, the Democrats won't have to rely on reporting, they can just use Trump's documented words to show how disingenuous he is when praising these bills.
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It'd be disingenuous to blame the rise of scene-core on The Locust, even if their music allowed plenty of lesser bands to explore similar territories.
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Hogg has become the subject of fringe online conspiracies, which have pointed to his father, a retired FBI agent, as "proof" that his interviews are disingenuous.
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The dictator turned out to be short (Mrs Albright and her host wore heels of the same height, she found), well-informed and cordial, if disingenuous.
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He called his trade "a down-the-middle compromise", which is utterly disingenuous: it is a restrictionist's wish list, and one that Democrats will never support.
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I was vexed by the media concern-trolling Trump about his McDonald's order and its massive calorie count, because it struck me as uppity and disingenuous.
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Pro-choice advocates, meanwhile, said that this mainstream pro-life position is disingenuous, and that Trump's comments reveal the inevitable real-world consequences of outlawing abortion.
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And that's why #TurnMeOn feels disingenuous, too: an effort to use confusion over the new feed to boost the number of people subscribed to every post.
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As Adams asserts, it becomes a self-fulfilling problem—legitimising a dominant culture that facilitates the harming of animals seems a disingenuous manner of dismantling it.
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And it would be disingenuous to suggest that it's not true to life — whether that life is Linklater's or any other current or former college kid.
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And second, without even a hint of sincerity, The Boss' standard-issue aphorisms about how family really does matter wind up seeing disingenuous and even sarcastic.
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Lathering their mythos across 2-hour films (let alone 26-episode series) seems today, as it did a decade ago, both creatively disingenuous and economically cynical.
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C. refusal to take left-wing students' protests seriously as a market signal is either a disingenuous stance or, as I've argued previously, an authoritarian one.
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Even though I enjoy my dress up and my layers of things that are fairly disingenuous—I'm a Southern California kid, but I own that space.
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In the meantime, Frederica Wilson, a Democratic congresswoman from Florida, is validating one of the Republicans' most disingenuous partisan stunts in recent memory: the Benghazi hearings.
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If he had done what others wanted him to do and immediately say he's the greatest guy in the world, then that would have appeared disingenuous.
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What's more, it is disingenuous to use these events to show a deep commitment to women's advancement while serving merely to check off the diversity box.
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"We support several candidates who have endorsed him, so he should stick to issues rather than disingenuous attacks," said Marcy Stech, a spokeswoman for Emily's List.
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The above lessons are not revolutionary, and it would be disingenuous to say I spent hours playing these games because I was looking for financial guidance.
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"To feign color-blindness, anytime, but especially while mounting a major new artwork about black lives and police brutality, is both disingenuous and inefficient," Meyer said.
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So it's disingenuous to hide behind this "not a scientist" cover when it comes to, say, climate change and then decide to take policy positions anyway.
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Disingenuous rhetoric aimed at "realistic" climate policy shouldn't, and cannot be taken at face value, and it's on us to see through this actively harmful facade.
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Alexander's invocation of King is even more disingenuous when one considers that he, and nearly all the leaders of the civil rights movement, were avowed Zionists.
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I'm cautious about what I share about my own happy and healthy son, afraid that all the giddy updates come off as privileged, boastful or disingenuous.
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"I don't see the work of an arch mastermind who is unreasonably using disingenuous statistics," he wrote to Mr. Bigazzi in late 3753, court papers show.
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Also on Monday, Jezebel republished comments that Mr. Tarantino made to Howard Stern in 2003 in a column arguing that his interview with Deadline was disingenuous.
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Given how interlinked morality, debt, and credit are in the United States, some of the concerns about China's new social credit score comes across as disingenuous.
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Projecting that image of perfection can be especially harmful for those in leadership positions who risk coming across as disingenuous, Ms. Brooks and her colleagues found.
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But for disingenuous outrage trolls, the blunt instrument of outrage is an end in itself: The crude result of getting someone fired is the entire point.
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"Anyone telling you that the president absolutely could not cancel student loans, or any government-held loans, because of the ADA is being disingenuous," he said.
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The challenge for Democrat Gina Ortiz Jones, a former Air Force intelligence officer, is to convince voters in the district that Hurd's centrist credentials are disingenuous.
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For anyone to determine that there was no collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia at this early stage is as disingenuous as it is suspicious.
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The Maldives Foreign Minister Dunya Maumoon said Nasheed had exploited his release and had been "disingenuous at best, and misleading at worst" about his medical condition.
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Indeed, it is a bit disingenuous for the STB to complain about industry concentration when no rail merger can go through unless they approve it first.
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"Jon Tester's first campaign ad is so disingenuous it should be insulting to Montanans who voted for President Trump," said Katie Martin, the organization's communications director.
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For the last six months, Democratic debates have more or less revolved around the subject of health care, with hours lost to silly and disingenuous questions.
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But it would be disingenuous to point to Spidey's likely departure from the MCU as the literal or metaphorical end of the character's big-screen success.
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"They had a good week and I think it would be disingenuous for me or any other Republican to pretend that it didn't matter," Huckabee said.
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Perhaps such criticism is why she's sometimes seemed unwilling or unable to distinguish between disingenuous political pile-ons and good-faith calls to respect Jewish sensitivities.
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PEGGY TROUPIN, NEW YORK To the Editor: Re "End Partisan Warfare on Health Care" (Op-Ed, March 10): It is more than merely disingenuous for Gov.
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Clinton's promises to regulate Wall Street as disingenuous, reminding astute listeners of her millions of dollars in financial-industry donations and paid speaking fees over the years.
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He sounds very disingenuous, and it makes me feel like he is more fascinated with the idea of me than really getting to know who Rachel is.
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So, for me, if I didn't share the toughest moment in my life where I felt God's grace the most, it would be disingenuous to this journey.
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Greenpeace called this argument disingenuous in a statement also published Monday, citing a discrepancy between what the commission has said publicly and what the leaked documents say.
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I've contacted the commission to confirm this, but it's extremely unlikely that it would exclude something that major from its stated plans (not to mention extremely disingenuous).
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As I pointed out in my earlier article, the fudging of terms and lack of clarity are often intended to promote public policy that is intellectually disingenuous.
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Many of us took these rationales to be disingenuous, a fig leaf of virtuous rhetoric jammed over the U.S. power elite's vulgar appetites for capital and commodities.
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Clinton's discussion of those losses has been somewhat disingenuous — Mr. Sanders is offering people who lose such plans something new and probably more generous to replace them.
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And for 7203p TV owners, it's disingenuous to suggest that these products will deliver a notably better experience, as Microsoft's Dave McCarthy did last week at E2720.
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But objections based on realism seem disingenuous when the doctor in question is a time-travelling alien with two hearts whose spaceship is a 1960s police box.
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After months attempting to silence women's claims about his behavior, Trump telling the nation to listen to sexual assault survivors came off as nothing less than disingenuous.
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I'm also not able to figure out why exactly this irks me, and it seems disingenuous to fake enthusiasm as I'm walking gifts over to the closet.
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I think it'd be easier to see how disingenuous this story is if it weren't presented to us with so much fanfare, often with literal blaring trumpets.
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But defining the iPhone as some sort of decade-long continuous camera, which Apple seems to be doing, is sort of a disingenuous way to do it.
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" While he appreciated the clarification, Khan added that "it sounds so disingenuous because of his policies, because of his rhetoric of hatred, of derision, of dividing us.
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It's possible that reading, "Can't wait to marry my best friend" over and over again on every engagement photo on Instagram can make the phrase feel disingenuous.
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But debasing the debate about race into senseless finger-pointing and disingenuous pandering further humiliates minority communities without offering concrete solutions to the complicated challenges we face.
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He was struck by the disingenuous response from conservative lawmakers to the most recent video sting from Project Veritas, which presented YouTube employees in an unfair light.
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On the other, I think it's disingenuous and low key racist for white people to scream 'But she's a cop!' while gleefully casting votes for Hillary Clinton.
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Mark Weaver, a Republican political consultant in Ohio, says that every remaining candidate has made similarly ignorant or disingenuous comments that betray a lack of economic knowledge.
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This is a classic Schnoo troll, one that bears more resemblance to an art project than the sort of disingenuous mockery we usually associate the word with.
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"It would be disingenuous and wrongheaded to take a playbook that has been used over and over again," Trump senior aide Karen Giorno told the Associated Press.
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However, it's disingenuous and more than a little hypocritical given the #MeToo flag-waving, for the Democrats to be so willing to hedge their bets en masse.
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Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), the lead impeachment manager and chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, suggested that the White House was engaged in a disingenuous shell game.
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Asked Tuesday whether he thought Pelosi was being disingenuous or setting up a strategy to later support a Trump impeachment, McCarthy said he does not think so.
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Facebook is taking its campaign to the real world by placing full-page ads in local newspapers and radio stations with its guidance for identifying disingenuous reporting.
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Now, it's disingenuous to refer to Spielberg's 1993 blockbuster as a horror movie, but it can't be denied that its greatest scenes owe much to the genre.
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To "celebrate" it at this point, even though I finally feel as if I have something worth celebrating, would feel cheesy at best, and disingenuous at worst.
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He was disingenuous until the very end, telling a Washington Post reporter just 72 hours before that he was unready to concede the president's place of birth.
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The original treaties did not envision "such a cynical and disingenuous promise," Judge William Fletcher, of the federal appeals court for the Ninth Circuit, ruled last week.
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And the media did what we do best, turning the internet's latest bout of disingenuous moral outrage into a national news story that dragged on for days.
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Charles Leocha, chairman of Travelers United, a consumer advocacy group, argued that it was disingenuous for American to put customers at the center of its legal stance.
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"Why is it important to you that the law recognize domestic violence in same-sex relationships?" the reporter, a woman softening her tone into disingenuous understanding, asked.
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Instead it's better to focus on the many historical reasons why most of the world's real and disingenuous responses to this now expected move are all wrong.
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But getting on the air and saying you're going to do something about it and then rolling it back, that's the kind of stuff that is disingenuous.
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Thanks to convenient services — and disingenuous framing of the trade-offs — Google made previously unimaginable ideas, like scanning private messages and documents, acceptable to millions of people.
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Caught in such a vise of global authoritarianism, it is cruelly disingenuous and willfully ignorant when the West asks us, "Who is the alternative" to Mr. Sisi?
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Dr. Luis Fernando Gómez, a professor of preventive medicine at Javeriana University in Bogotá who backed the tax measure, said Postobón's allegations about the commercial were disingenuous.
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Suggesting the El Paso suspect is a leftist because he espoused such ideas just shows how naïve — or disingenuous — some of these pro-Trump personalities really are.
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As such, it would be disingenuous to equate carbon emissions from the natural functioning of a freshwater reservoir ecosystem with a coal- or gas-fired power plant.
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"Who cares about a lot of old clothes?" he said, which was kind of a disingenuous statement, given his career and how much he, for one, does.
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For the university or the system's Board of Governors to act as if they made the best or only choice available to them is disingenuous at best.
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Surveying individuals on annual interest rate caps when they do not have experience with short-term, small-dollar loans is careless at best and disingenuous at worst.
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Confident assertions by technocratic elites that the benefits of global capitalism will eventually "trickle down" have turned out to be equally disingenuous, if not brazenly self-serving.
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Opinion Columnist At Wednesday's Judiciary Committee hearing on impeachment, the witness called by Republicans, the George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley, gave a disingenuous, hackish performance.
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Ms. Barbier said in a presentencing filing that it was "hypocritical and disingenuous" for prosecutors to suggest that Mr. Meek was somehow to blame for the killings.
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As "gentrification" has become an increasingly dirty word, the volume of disingenuous posturing on the subject has increased dramatically, and the supply of balanced reporting has declined.
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There is little worse than when brands, companies, or otherwise official bodies try to 'do' pop culture, basically because it's lame and disingenuous, and corporations aren't people.
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On a few occasions, the Supreme Court has rejected the interest the government has advanced to support its law, essentially concluding that the government was being disingenuous.
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Whether Winnefeld knew he was wrong at the time or not, one thing is clear: The military released disingenuous data about how it prosecutes sexual assault cases.
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It feels like we forgot the wisdom of the early '90s of treating stuff we read online with skepticism and knowing that stuff can be disingenuous online.
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There were rare instances when I'd introduce myself to a table using my real name, when I felt I could trust diners with more than a disingenuous wink.
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Now, on to Qualcomm's response, headline included: The latest statement issued by Broadcom is disingenuous and clearly intended to create a false impression about Qualcomm's level of engagement.
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It goes without saying that we also use computers in vastly different ways than we did 10 years ago, making a 2007 claim disingenuous to say the least.
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But there was something glib, not to say disingenuous, in his program notes, in which he wrote that for a young generation, body modification is the new tattoo.
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But with the Palestinian leadership saying Kushner's economic framework ignores their aspirations for statehood, senior Palestine Liberation Organisation official Hanan Ashrawi said the Manama conference was "quite disingenuous".
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His report on the case included disturbing signs of a disingenuous prosecution, including witness coaching, timeline tweaking, evidence manipulation, courtroom misrepresentations and the use of unreliable inmate testimony.
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But tech's disingenuous messages have generally been allowed to pass with far less critical scrutiny than gets applied to companies in all sorts of other industries and sectors.
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But it seems a bit disingenuous to talk loudly about extending protections for consumers while at the same time remaining silent about other, very important protections being dismantled.
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So when Cruz showered praise upon Trump, it was for completely self-serving reasons — he was being exactly the disingenuous politician he constantly accuses his rivals of being.
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At a time when it seems trite or disingenuous to put a cause at the center of your brand, Maison Margiela's feels like a legitimate call to action.
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The lawsuit has been timed to coincide with a carefully planned media blitz in an attempt to create a disingenuous narrative that is at odds with the facts.
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But it's self-serving at best — and a little disingenuous — for those anchors to downplay the concerns expressed about Fox News as an organization or its primetime hosts.
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The attempts to portray Rory as flawed and sometimes a "bad egg" are laughably disingenuous, especially factoring Alexis Bledel's painfully shit acting: She can't even portray boredom well.
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In terms of the dasher payment system currently in place, Liss-Riordan said that while what DoorDash is doing is disingenuous, the company isn't technically breaking the law.
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Not only would he look disingenuous if he were to start attacking Clinton full-throttle, he'd undercut the persona that brought his coalition together in the first place.
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She added that studies touting the perceived health benefits of casual drinking are "seen increasingly as disingenuous or irrelevant," given the rising risks of a range of cancers.
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While not exactly disingenuous in its claims, the social network does clearly want to foster the creation and sharing of as many new video formats as it can.
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"It's not a lie, but it's disingenuous," Marilyn B. Young, a professor of history at New York University, said while reading an entry about the My Lai massacre.
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In these circumstances, using freedom of religion as a weapon to deprive LGBT people of any partnership recognition at all is misguided at best and disingenuous at worst.
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However, in retrospect, Cruz's answer seems to have been nothing more than the type of phony, disingenuous rhetoric that many have come to expect from pandering Washington politicians.
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This was, of course, wildly disingenuous and unprincipled, but their attacks on Democrats for cutting Medicare stuck, and probably contributed to the landslide election they won in 2010.
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Still, it would be disingenuous to categorize Tuesday night's election as a defeat for Democrats or some kind of validation for Trump, his tweets to the contrary notwithstanding.
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Since The Wall Street Journal has published story after story about Theranos's seemingly disingenuous practices around its finger-prick blood-testing, the company has basically been falling apart.
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It would be disingenuous to pretend that January and February are entirely free of the turkeys that have come to be associated with the mid- to late winter.
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I think the one thing that I felt was disingenuous is when they said well they took the data and we didn't know what they did with it.
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Thus, when they're accused of being "racist," some whites either see the accusation as disingenuous, or they see it as a personal, unfounded attack, and they become defensive.
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USADA officials have disputed that explanation, saying that it is disingenuous and that the goal of the test was to determine how athletes could get away with cheating.
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"Instead of making empty and disingenuous offers, @SecPompeo can accept any of the many requests from Iranian reporters to interview US officials," tweeted Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif.
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And in an open letter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, they accuse Facebook of making "disingenuous" claims that the opposition is coming from a small group of critics.
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"It is disingenuous and insulting that Indonesia would violate a contract by hiding behind politically motivated laws that were enacted after the contract was signed," Mr. Icahn said.
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Or to come off on one hand disingenuous, or on the other hand just trite, or, you know, there's that fine line between platitude and just the truth.
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"Mitsubishi Aircraft Corporation's attempt to recast the dispute as anything other than Bombardier's justified protection of its intellectual property is misguided and disingenuous," it said in a statement.
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While it can be difficult to balance the needs of the public to have timely access to large archives with individual privacy, such concerns have mostly been disingenuous.
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"I think this explanation is completely inadequate and potentially disingenuous," said Senator Richard Blumenthal, a Connecticut Democrat and ranking member of the Senate subcommittee charged with consumer protection.
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"This court follows the commands of the Supreme Court and the dictates of the United States Constitution, rather than the disingenuous calculations of the Mississippi Legislature," he added.
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Ali Saidi of the Contra Costa Immigrant Rights Alliance, derided ICE's statement as "disingenuous" and called for the illegal immigrants to be released rather than transferred to another facility.
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You offer your pain up once, and if an editor asks you to do it again, to work that angle a bit harder, it seems disingenuous to deny them.
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The bottom line: I'm not sure we've ever seen anything quite like this juiced ball saga, and MLB's "nothing to see here!" stance grows more disingenuous by the day.
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"It is disingenuous for KPMG to argue that it cannot comply with the court orders because its associate KPMG Huazhen will not comply with KPMG's request," Judge To wrote.
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" The suit continues, accusing Bose of meeting with Doppler under the guise of a strategic partnership in August of last year, "a sentiment Doppler Labs now surmises was disingenuous.
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And that's the crux of it: Silicon Valley's soft power message about the halcyon beauty of its workplaces feels increasingly disingenuous to the rest of the world, even hypocritical.
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During their vacation to Mexico, Morgan decide to confront her BFF about what she thought was a disingenuous "happiness" act Singer was putting on to distract the other ladies.
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Given that record, Mr. Portman's Democratic rival for the Senate seat, former governor and congressman Ted Strickland, said Mr. Portman's opposition now to the Pacific nations' pact is disingenuous.
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It would be disingenuous of me not to stress that the majority of Stack employees and executives really and truly want to do the right thing with this data.
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"The fact that Dream Center executives characterized a policy decision on a pending appeal was somehow about them is disingenuous but not surprising," Hill, the Education Department's spokesperson said.
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Both have since become mainstream — not entirely due to Nintendo's success with them, of course, but it would be disingenuous to say that had nothing to do with it.
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A senior Senate Democratic aide on Friday slammed the GOP proposal as "disingenuous" because Ford's lawyers has informed them that she would not be ready to testify before Thursday.
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So it feels, at the least, disingenuous to frame things in this way and not spend time talking about what is happening to people of color in this country.
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To fight back against Comey, Trump's allies have launched a campaign to discredit him as a self-serving, disingenuous, attention-seeking ex-lawman who just wants to sell books.
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But this tension reflects what is wrong with Flake's book, which sacrifices an actual philosophy of conservatism for a sentimental and often disingenuous plea to make America decent again.
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"Jon Tester's first campaign ad is so disingenuous it should be insulting to Montanans who voted for President Trump," Katie Martin, the NRSC's communications director, said in a statement.
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But this is disingenuous; the shift of medical services out of hospitals will create other good jobs — for home nurses, community health care workers and staff at outpatient centers.
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Games journalist Carter told me he feels the gaming community needs to, in essence, reject the whole debate entirely because at this point in its life cycle, it's disingenuous.
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Spacey immediately came under fire on social media for what many saw as a disingenuous conflation of an apology for sexual misconduct with a public acknowledgement of being gay.
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But some Russians nuclear experts say those US claims are disingenuous, and that neither Iran nor North Korea are anywhere competent enough to launch a nuclear strike against America.
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This latest incarnation of trickle-down economics, which is supported by President Trump, shows that, during the 2016 presidential campaign, Mr. Trump's pitch to working-class voters was disingenuous.
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"Folks who are just trying to delay the return of this because of their relative positioning in the results, last night, I think that's a bit disingenuous," he said.
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Trump, who was apparently watching Pelosi on television, quickly tweeted out a heated reply that accused her of being disingenuous about her desire to move forward on the legislation.
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It doesn't help that in a franchise devoted to 1000 percent sincerity at all times, this disingenuous attempt to add strife to the young couple's relationship feels off brand.
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Huawei said in a statement that The Journal relied on "false information" for its reporting and characterized it as part of a pattern of "disingenuous" reporting on the company.
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If saying that you have an illness seems too disingenuous, you could say that you've got veisalgia, which The Guardian says is a legit medical term for a hangover.
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It is disingenuous at best for Congress to repeatedly saddle traveling families and businesses with tax-hike after tax-hike while airports are sitting on billions in unused funds.
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Unfortunately, rather than move forward, she started in the past — explaining she thought Singer was "disingenuous" for texting supportive words to Frankel while still making "nasty" comments about her business.
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The post was disingenuous given the fact that Taiwan and China have been governed separately for seven decades, although Beijing considers Taiwan a renegade province and part of its territory.
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" To run as a Democrat, he said, "I would have to say things that I know in my heart I do not believe, and I would have to be disingenuous.
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" Bieber, who took a quick break from his Purpose World Tour to perform in Las Vegas, is unsettled by how disingenuous awards shows can be, despite all the "hollow smiles.
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It's impossible to imagine this kind of imagery — KKK hoods, Nazi swastikas, and white supremacy— leveled at any other candidate without it seeming like a gross exaggeration or extremely disingenuous.
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So, it just really just shows the hypocrisy and how disingenuous because when they have evidence of actual malfeasance and things going on, they don&apost do anything about it.
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Last year Mr. Trump couldn't cite a favorite Bible verse when asked by reporters, a no-brainer part of interview preparation for a Republican presidential candidate, even if it's disingenuous.
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I'm really picky about lyrics in general, but I've noticed that a bad lyric — one that feels cheap or disingenuous or clichéd — can turn me off of an entire song.
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I can't express to you how much joy mocking Mike Pence's marriage brings me personally, but making it into a political issue is either incredibly misguided or straight-up disingenuous.
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He argued it was ridiculous to defer to the FCC's decision when it was clearly wrong; cable internet was obviously a telecommunications service to anyone who wasn't a disingenuous lawyer.
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This is disingenuous because they themselves don't believe Pyongyang will ever give up the nuclear weapons it already has or even fully stop its nuclear development activities under a freeze.
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People pay when they spend their time, money, and energy worrying about preposterous things because a company dressed up nonsense ideas to make them look reasonable out of disingenuous concern.
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When some labels get vocal about environmental concerns related to fashion manufacturing practices just once a year, when, say, Earth Day rolls around, it comes off as sort of disingenuous.
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" As one journalist at a rival conservative publication told me, the magazine's qualified praise of Trump now "seems rather disingenuous after they were so hysterical about him during the primaries.
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After the hearing, lawyers for the families who lost relatives in the Lion Air crash accused Mr. Muilenburg of being either disingenuous or ill-informed about his company's own work.
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In a smugly disingenuous bit of showmanship, he challenges the defense to find holes in the collapsed roof of the gas chambers at Auschwitz through which cyanide pellets were pumped.
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"Some quite disingenuous ads have been going around in recent weeks targeting people who are in the middle that aren't always from who they seem to be from," he said.
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The politicians who back these laws claim that they're designed to protect against voter fraud, but many critics feel that this is a disingenuous concern based on an imaginary problem.
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Happily disingenuous T&Cs are on borrowed time — at least for European tech users, thanks to a new European Union data protection framework that will come into force next month.
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A protest specifically designed to highlight systemic police brutality against minorities has mutated into a disingenuous debate about patriotism, the proper forums for protest, and, most recently, unity in football.
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We have been treated to the disingenuous tirade of Republicans railing against activist judges while all the time they were gestating an entire generation of business-oriented lawyers and judges.
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More on that: A British parliamentary committee that is collaborating with a Senate panel has accused Facebook of providing "disingenuous" answers and withholding information on Russian influence and fake news.
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His talk of a two-state solution became seen as disingenuous by many Palestinians, and an economic arrangement as a precursor to a settlement was discredited by association, several said.
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By a coincidence that its adherents insist is entirely innocent, this happens to be the Jewish state, making anti-Zionists either the most disingenuous of ideologues or the most obtuse.
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He reported on the harassment charges against the Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein but now focuses much of his ire on fashion designers and editors, calling out their silence as disingenuous.
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Here are the common red flags of a fake or at best disingenuous Amazon reviews — catch enough of them, and you should doubt the product's quality and likely move on.
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Slater, who is represented by Morvillo Abramowitz Grand Iason & Anello, asked a state judge to reject the plaintiffs' bid to amend their lawsuit because their claims are "deceptive" and disingenuous.
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The firm called her lawsuit, which depicted Sedgwick's culture as clubby and paternalistic, a "self-serving" and "disingenuous" exercise in a legal filing to move the contentious dispute to arbitration.
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As its threat capabilities grow rapidly, Pyongyang will sue for a disingenuous peace agreement with the U.S. under the guise of living in constant fear of a preemptive U.S. strike.
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He said attacks Sanders has deployed at debates and on the campaign trail against Biden for supporting the Iraq War are disingenuous, even if trusting Bush was a bad idea.
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"We are gratified that the Court continues to reject Ms. Herzer's increasingly desperate and disingenuous attempts to depose Mr. Redstone," Gabrielle Vidal, an attorney for Redstone, said in a statement.
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Few songs make you want to scream, dance, cry, march, and call your senator all at the same time — and even fewer manage it without feeling pretentious, calculated, or disingenuous.
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Or were they just disingenuous clickbait, meant to rile us up for an afternoon, ultimately leaving us all even more cynical and dead inside than we were to begin with?
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It's a rather disingenuous narrative that often plays out on the left when it is revealed that a progressive political figure is not, I don't know, living under a bridge.
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As such, it is disingenuous to suggest that fetal endangerment laws and limitations on late-term abortion pose a legitimate threat to women when so few cases can be identified.
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" They complained about the Justice Department's request for a life sentence and said, "They justify their advocacy with a disingenuous interpretation of the law and a false narrative of facts.
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"Democrats look awfully disingenuous by attacking him for opposing a terrible plan that would punish his state and constituents," said David Axelrod, a top adviser to former President Barack Obama.
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But that's where all the money still is — and NBC's claim of being the No. 1 network for the third year in a row is ... disingenuous, to put it mildly.
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And as ISP lobbyists grow increasingly nervous about the FCC's chance in court, you can expect the phony drumbeat for this kind of disingenuous net neutrality "solution" to only grow.
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What Facebook is doing on the security front is especially disingenuous BS in that it risks undermining security practice by bundling a respected tool (2FA) with ads that creep on people.
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If you think Swift has been disingenuous about what she did and didn't know about the song ahead of its release, listening to her (supposed) approval just serves as mere reaffirmation.
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Bryant went on to say that Uber has given very little money to Oakland and that it's a bit disingenuous to see such a large grant go to Girls Who Code .
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Six years ago in The New Yorker Sasha Frere-Jones compared Drake to reality television, which still applies insofar as both turn valiant attempts at self-improvement into disingenuous public spectacle.
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Well, just as you might have thought, it turns out one force driving that backlash forward may have been disingenuous manipulation of social media sites like Twitter to promote political propaganda.
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Criticism of her ranged from seeming disingenuous to power-hungry, and almost all of it was tied up in the public's intuition that she just didn't look like a trustworthy person.
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It was the most pure form of sexual harassment: he pawed and groped and I insisted no but he persisted promising me a "25 article contract" in the most disingenuous voice.
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They think it is foolish to waste higher education on people who would rather study "Seinfeld" than Socrates, and disingenuous to confuse the pursuit of truth with the pursuit of profit.
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Nilsen's aforementioned "How I Get Ready on a Bad Day" video was met with criticism in the comments section by a viewer who saw it as a disingenuous play for money.
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"Audrina claims that she was only entering the family residence to obtain belongings and items for our daughter, but I believe this to be disingenuous," Bohan wrote in the court filing.
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He even had a response, disingenuous though it was, to Chief Justice John Roberts's riposte that members of Congress must be "pretty happy with the way the districting has been done".
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Yates warned the White House that Flynn had been disingenuous about his December communications with the Russian ambassador, Sergey Kislyak, which Yates and other agency officials deemed inappropriate and potentially illegal.
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To those who follow the sport, fictional names can be jarring and off-putting; the novel is set in the real world, thus it would be disingenuous to use false names.
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"We were not only shocked, we were saddened that for such disingenuous expression of his thinking and of his feeling, and that was nothing but it was ... political expediency," he said.
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It would be disingenuous to claim that Weiner's filmmakers were looking to make a specific point about Abedin, or marriage, or politics and gender, when they set out to follow Weiner.
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There's no reason to believe that any of these accounts were disingenuous, but it's also silly to present these as purely personal narratives: They were personal speeches deployed for political ends.
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It's hard to imagine a more disingenuous speech from Trump, who ran as a divider, speaking solely to a white base and basing his entire campaign on racial resentment and rage.
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Ezra Klein, the Vox founder who is a trusted voice on the left on health reform, last week took Clinton to task for a disingenuous attack on Sanders' health care plan.
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At best, the letter uses Threshold Editions as a shield to protect the publishing conglomerate's other imprints; at worst, as GQ's Kevin Nguyen and others pointed out on Twitter, it's disingenuous.
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The silver lining to this kind of racist agitation is that it gives the lie to the disingenuous pleas for decorum marking the right's defense of the GOP health care bills.
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And if what should have seemed disingenuous or else a bad case of false modesty somehow rang true, that is because the listener had already heard the tale of the nose.
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Moscow has posed a consistent obstacle to the Obama administration's plans to stem the civil war in Syria and has been "disingenuous" during efforts to work together, the CIA head claimed.
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Though they've couched their arguments against the bill in dire predictions about its potential to impact food safety, those food-safety fears are as disingenuous as they are unsupported by evidence.
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It was the most pure form of sexual harassment: he pawed and groped and I insisted no but he persisted promising me a '25 article contract' in the most disingenuous voice.
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That sense of kinship, though, is always based on a complicated reality, and when it enters politics and pop culture unchecked, it helps us tell disingenuous stories about ourselves and others.
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"It seems disingenuous to attribute any change, any decline in employment of restaurants in Manhattan to the minimum wage because there are these other things going on at the same time,"
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When someone is ego-based or disingenuous, they are always focused on themselves, the short-term, what they want, and how they can manipulate to get what they want right now.
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One presidential candidate has been characterized by none other than the director of the FBI as extremely careless (read that to mean incompetent), and generally disingenuous (read that to mean deceitful).
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Of course it can, just like every law; but demonizing your opposition and failing to consider the reasoning behind such a quintessential piece of maritime legislation is short sighted and disingenuous.
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The result is that the increased visibility about what the alt-right is doing, and how disingenuous its motivations are, has made its methods more widely known and transparent than ever.
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Disingenuous political leaders, talking heads and media members, and craven opportunists have shifted the conversation from calling out injustice and inequality to offering up patriotic bona fides and asking for unity.
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Vice began as an upstart, off-color magazine founded in 1003 using money from a Canadian government welfare program — and attracted millions in investment using sometimes disingenuous ploys with potential investors.
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It's disingenuous not to include abortion in conversations about prenatal testing, but when you're being offered these tests at your doctor's office, you're not going to hear the big A-word.
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It seemed disingenuous to write a Vows story about Bruce Wayne and Selina Kyle getting married when I knew they would not, so I felt I had to include that information.
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In a 12-page ruling, Judge Chutkan sharply criticized the government's position as "disingenuous at best" since the Defense Department is preventing lawyers for the group from conferring with the man.
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" After a heated debate on the floor, a surprise GOP caucus, and several prolonged recesses, lawmakers fail to repeal HB2, with some Republicans blaming it on the "disingenuous Charlotte City Council.
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" There's been a disingenuous conflation I've seen from some pundits that criticizing Biden's corporate support from donors is the same as calling the Black voters who voted for him "corporate Democrats.
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That Flynn had to choose between a guilty plea or mounting a costly defense is like the choice an FBI employee had to make when facing a disingenuous accusation of lying.
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It's worth pointing out that all three of these plans are disingenuous as soon as you look at the fine print — which is the way with nearly all US mobile plans.
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The alleged Oxfam coverup should certainly not come as a surprise, given the often disingenuous or even dishonest way the megacharities present their work to the public whose donations they need.
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In a blistering series of tweets last week, Weaver told the Cruz campaign to "stop the victim act" and accused them of being "disingenuous" in calling on Kasich to drop out.
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This is disingenuous at best; the imagery and tropes produced during this period underpinned what the late intellectual Edward Said called the "repertory of Orientalism": the foundation for future racist ideology.
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China, like Iran, is a disingenuous dictatorship that maintains power by a mix of bribery and force; President Xi Jinping has just rewritten the rules so he can govern for life.
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She views fine dining as disingenuous, built from a system steeped in oppression and hierarchy in which women, gays and other minorities — whether customers or cooks — are not treated the same.
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Despite Mr. Johnson's messy personal life, allegations of misconduct while he was mayor of London and his disingenuous handling of Brexit, the news media have scarcely laid a hand on him.
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" He added: "If I ran as a Democrat, I would have to say things that I know in my heart I do not believe, and I would have to be disingenuous.
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But it would be disingenuous to suggest that fertility apps do significantly more than re-package long-standing family planning methods, sometimes monitoring additional parameters that aren't proven to be relevant.
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"Let me assure you the hard working employees of the NWS had nothing to do with the utterly disgusting and disingenuous tweet sent out by NOAA management tonight #NOAA," he tweeted.
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Given Republicans' history of raising undocumented claims of fraud, Democrats and voting rights advocates say that citing perceptions of tainted ballots as a reason for voting restrictions is disingenuous at best.
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A senior Democratic leadership aide reacted negatively to the committee's proposal, telling NBC News it was a disingenuous gesture since they already knew Ford was not willing to testify before Thursday.
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We'd like to pay our rent and bills; asking for gifts can feel weird and disingenuous when nobody has money, ever, and giving gifts when everybody's broke can make people uncomfortable.
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At this point, calling any of Yiannopoulos's followers "trolls" instead of racist right-wing extremists who potentially have an army of hackers at their disposal is not only disingenuous but dangerous.
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Cindy Cohn: Yeah, and the way that they share it is also just a little disingenuous, but there's a lot of companies that are scooping up a lot of this data.
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There's nothing morally wrong with that, but to go out and say, "I'm saving the world and I'm fixing a food problem," when there are actually better solutions is really disingenuous.
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Clearly, this method isn't much of a secret, although The Wall Street Journal points out that advertisers are catching on and are fed up with paying more for potentially disingenuous viewership counts.
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Unsurprisingly, these comments didn't sit well with some listeners, who took to Twitter to lambast Deech for her comments implying that existing as a trans person is a disingenuous way to live.
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Carlson makes it clear during the segment that he had his kids vaccinated, but again makes this disingenuous claim that it's important to just keep asking questions about the safety of vaccines.
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This is a slightly disingenuous cue, since apparently one of the active effects of DMT tripping is body paralysis—so taking notes or creating artworks in real time would be unheard of.
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She wants to build a messaging app explicitly constructed for sexting, as opposed to Snapchat's disingenuous pretense that its growth was not fuelled by that — an app with custom filters, emoji, etc.
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There's so much shame and loneliness around government assistance, deepened by an ingrained, disingenuous narrative that people who receive SNAP benefits — the formal term for food stamps — are unskilled, lazy, or unemployed.
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On the other hand, I don't for one second think that anything that happened is going to hold up for even two more episodes, so that makes it all a little disingenuous.
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Stevens says she's the co-founder of a women in politics group that meets regularly with state officials, and told the panel she found Kemp's ad to be disingenuous for another reason.
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Her first question was, how disingenuous is it for Univision to come into our office and tell us that they believe in what we do and then proceed to delete these posts?
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Republican former congresswoman Nan Hayworth found Hillary Clinton's debate performance disingenuous, and told CNBC on Monday she's voting for Donald Trump despite his boasts in a leaked 2005 video about groping women.
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In today's ad, AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson made a number of disingenuous claims while calling for new laws that would protect the internet, and he dragged tech companies into the mix.
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What this young person, so frustrated with so much of the apparently disingenuous lifestyle art he saw that clearly aped Snow's deeply "real" work, didn't know is that Dash was very wealthy.
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I think it's [about] Trump's way of speaking; there's something special about the way he expresses what he thinks—something that makes ordinary politicians, even the honest ones, sound insipid and disingenuous.
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Legere says facts about T-Mobile have been "lost or buried in the dialog over the past week or so," which is a statement so disingenuous it might make your head spin.
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But the Carlson move also says that Fox News in the Trump era may not be so different than the old Fox News—which is to say very white and very disingenuous.
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He then tweeted a conservative meme so obviously dumb and disingenuous that he had to heap on the smarm to try to sell it—in one instance he had to also dictionary.
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"For me, if I didn't share the toughest moment in my life where I felt God's grace the most, it would be disingenuous to this journey," she told ESPN in an interview.
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Putting our name on a promise that we know we can't keep would be a disingenuous act, painting the Paris Agreement not as a serious undertaking, but as a global publicity stunt.
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But to claim that electors who vote in faithful accordance with the Constitution and the founders' intent are "faithless" and "disenfranchise" millions of voters is, at best, disingenuous, and at worst, deceptive.
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On Wednesday, Reid said "it feels disingenuous" that the NFL would schedule a workout for the quarterback on Saturday, a day that half of the NFL teams would be heading to games.
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This is a disingenuous argument; the government itself has made it impossible to do the kinds of trials and studies that could produce the evidence that would justify changing the drug's classification.
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In that case, the Russians get a nice consolation prize: fodder for their disingenuous argument that if any system is "rigged," it's the United States', so judge not lest you be judged.
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What was depressing and even scary about the April 23 argument was the disingenuous lengths to which the conservative justices were willing to go to tilt the case in the administration's favor.
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Unlike Facebook's deepfake policy, which ignores disingenuous doctoring like cuts and splices to videos and out-of-context clips, Twitter's policy isn't limited to a specific technology, such as AI-enabled deepfakes.
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The revelation of Cate's teenage secret lands as a left-field jolt, a disingenuous turn so jarring I had to go back and flip pages to see where I'd missed the clues.
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Again, it feels disingenuous to talk about who does or doesn't know about PrEP without repeating that Gilead charges upwards of $2,000 out of pocket for a one month supply of Truvada.
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He terms "fake news" propagated by the "dishonest media," as a means to sow disingenuous seeds of doubt among his most rabid supporters that it is the system that is against them.
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"Let me assure you the hard working employees of the NWS had nothing to do with the utterly disgusting and disingenuous tweet sent out by NOAA management tonight #NOAA," he tweeted Friday.
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While it may come off as somewhat disingenuous, considering this hasn't always been its approach, many sexual violence prevention organizations applauded Uber for voluntarily coming out with its thorough, 84-page report.
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"We believe that in its evidence to the committee Facebook has often deliberately sought to frustrate our work, by giving incomplete, disingenuous and at times misleading answers to our questions," Collins said.
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Many pointed out that plenty of Drag Race contestants have had plastic surgery — some more and more openly than others — and so suggesting that it's a deal breaker is disingenuous at best.
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He told WhoWhatWhy that he had also emailed Kemp's office on Saturday to report the vulnerabilities:What Kemp's office is doing is disingenuous, Bruce Brown, lawyer for the nonprofit Coalition for Good Governance asserted.
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I also feel that I am being slightly disingenuous about the obvious care and detail that has been put into the River Journey — particularly the animatronic Shaman of Songs which is creepily real.
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When Bethenny says certain behaviors of Ramona's have been "disingenuous" and "nasty," the latter goes on an out-of-left-field, expletive-filled tirade about her own failed marriage and very expensive divorce.
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Either ANTM is disingenuous in claiming that they're changing modeling and society by picking "diverse" girls, or they're honest about what they are: a show that provokes drama first and promotes models second.
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Mnuchin engaged in a fair amount of implausible and disingenuous pro-Trump spin on Sunday talk shows but does not appear to have actually done anything wrong with regard to the Ukraine situation.
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Presumably, this stems from a backlash to the permanence of (occasionally embarrassing) online content, social media sites that are oversaturated with said content, and "curated online personas" that ultimately come across as disingenuous.
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It would slowly but surely corrupt your work and your spirit and soul, and only when you're spitting out disingenuous, phony work will you realize how you robbed yourself of your own talent.
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In a scathing statement posted on Twitter, the 23-year-old Olympian chided the organizations for their apparently disingenuous response to the sexual abuse scandal involving former Team USA gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar.
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Is it radical and aspirational to offer stories in which queer characters aren't defined by their queerness, in which queerness is just matter-of-fact—or is it disingenuous and out of touch?
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The attempt to end telework is disingenuous, unsupported by data, and harms the federal government's ability to attract and retain a talented, young workforce – not to mention, it could cost the government millions.
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The GOP could no longer pretend any real principle was at stake, and the Democrats, by filibustering Gorsuch, can now kill these disingenuous conceits that have defined Supreme Court battles for too long.
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As another Facebook user who has also already received the notifications — journalist, Jennifer Baker — points out, what it's doing here is incredibly disingenuous — because it's using fear to try to manipulate people's choices.
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If it's disingenuous, it's because protest speech isn't being truly countenanced, based on the specious notion that left-wing student disapproval can only come from fragility or petulance rather than knowledgeable, rational opposition.
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The Roberts Court majority -- or, if it turns out to be so utterly disingenuous, then Congress itself -- needs to revisit Shelby County today and reinstate the VRA in the form Congress enacted it.
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"While Milburn told Insider that he understands Turkey's position on the YPG and the US forces "went in with our eyes open, it's kind of disingenuous a few years later to abandon them.
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Ms. Tirelli said she had a phone conversation with one of the lawyers in the agency's real estate division and provided documents that she said suggested Caliber had been disingenuous in the negotiations.
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It is disingenuous for the N.R.A. to promote itself as an organization that teaches gun safety, even as it refuses to acknowledge the need for gun reform in order to promote true safety.
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Several geologists who CNN has spoken with have flagged his comments as disingenuous, saying that someone with a 34-year-old degree who never worked in the field is not considered a geologist.
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Yet many conservatives see an effort to downplay ISIS's ideology as disingenuous or naive, an affirmation of their concern that the Obama administration does not understand its enemy or take it seriously enough.
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The South Koreans have offered a bunch of new small openings on humanitarian and sports groups and even some funding and things like that, and the North Koreans keep saying, Eh, you're disingenuous.
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I don't wish to imply that Thom Yorke is being disingenuous here, but, then again, I only wish not to imply that because I treat Thom Yorke with a certain degree of reverence.
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After all, it's clear that House of Cards is, at heart, a satire of disingenuous Western politics, while BoJack Horseman is a takedown of the vapid self-involvement of America's West Coast elite.
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"It would have been disingenuous to not address all those issues because it's coursing through every fiber of American culture so it should be a part of our story telling," Davis told Reuters.
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It's both unrealistic and disingenuous to suggest that a green, clean energy revolution for the planet can occur without dismantling the structures that allow corporate interests to pollute democracy in the first place.
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At the heart of Stiglitz's argument is the suggestion that those who believe it is possible to "have it all," to do well and do good, are deluded at best, disingenuous at worst.
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He slammed the ongoing special counsel probe into whether his campaign had links to Russian meddling in the 2016 election and called for more bipartisanship in Washington, an appeal Democrats dismissed as disingenuous.
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That might change in a world where Harvey Weinstein (who never met a rival movie he couldn't saddle with a disingenuous "narrative" designed to drag it down) has been removed from the Academy.
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She was for the most part portrayed neither sympathetically nor heroically, but rather as a disingenuous climber well versed in her country's often transactional relationship between sex, power and the pursuit of ambition.
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And his few efforts to appeal to black people — by, for instance, meeting with black pastors — have been high-profile debacles that only solidify sentiments that Trump's concern for black people is disingenuous.
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It feels disingenuous and forced because we all know that when Mr. Trump has something he really wants to say, he does one thing and one thing only: He spews forth on Twitter.
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"Such disingenuous actions and statements fly in the face of the transparency needed to ensure that the regulatory process is reasonable, fair and consistent with the law," said NELP's executive director, Christine Owens.
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The show was advertised as being "for, about and produced by blacks," but the produced-by part was a little disingenuous, because when we started out, WNET's executive producer was a white guy.
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It's a disingenuous argument which ignores the fact that the actual tools of economic growth — housing, education, and health care — are far too expensive for Americans at the bottom of the income scale.
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"I don't want to accuse anyone of being consciously disingenuous," said Kyle Cleveland, associate professor of sociology at Temple University in Tokyo, who has written about the psychological effects of the Fukushima disaster.
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They decided that to avoid "greenwashing" and similar disingenuous practices, where companies can give the impression of "doing good" with nothing more than a clever ad campaign, there should be a certification system.
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The filing highlights investor disclosures from the municipalities that show uncertainty about the impacts of climate change like sea level rise, arguing that they are being disingenuous in their lawsuits about such impacts.
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China will liberalize only at a pace that suits its own purposes, and merely offers to buy more American agricultural commodities and energy products and disingenuous promises to better honor intellectual property rights.
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Trying to mislead the public to believe that this so-called reform legislation will improve accountability is not only disingenuous, but also a direct threat to the health of our most vulnerable Americans.
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Michael Polenberg, the vice president of government affairs at Safe Horizon, a New York City nonprofit that helps victims of sexual abuse and domestic violence, suggested that the church's sudden turnaround was disingenuous.
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Lumping this valid concern about the effects an on-field strategy might have on players' real lives off the field into the same category as old baseball men yelling at clouds seems disingenuous.
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"The timing of this application appears disingenuous and an attempt at sabotage," Stephanie Barwise, a lawyer representing some of the survivors and bereaved families, told the inquiry on Monday, describing her clients as outraged.
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The Digital, Culture, Media and Sport committee spent months last year investigating online political disinformation and singled out Facebook for "disingenuous" and "bad faith" responses to democratic concerns about the misuse of people's data.
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"It is disingenuous to say that this plan is purely economic because it has a political dimension that has implications that are incongruous with the political aspirations," said Safwan Masri, a Columbia University professor.
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Not 'founded on anything' Disingenuous interactions like that color Mueller's report, contributing to the impression Trump and his aides have little regard for telling the truth either to each other or to the public.
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Try as we may to separate the man from his work, it feels disingenuous to write about a Woody Allen project without so much as mentioning the personal scandal that's plagued him for years.
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The favorites purists often seemed horrified at my suggestion that they sneak a woman into the top 40; they saw meddling with their immutable list of faves as disingenuous at best, deceitful at worst.
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From the late aughts to, well, pretty much last year, the public narrative and cultural commentary surrounding Anne Hathaway was vile: For years, bloggers called her an annoying theater kid, others dubbed her disingenuous.
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Chris Lewis, vice president of Public Knowledge, a public-interest advocacy group, said it is disingenuous for the FCC to decline to regulate internet providers, but then block states for trying to do so.
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Such heterodox thinking can be wrapped in a bit of disingenuous cluelessness: "I'm not sure how things work here, but I was thinking…" People working in a language not their own report other perks.
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The final language that was included in WRDA is the same one-year extension already included in annual appropriations bills, which supporters of the provision say is a disingenuous way to address the issue.
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Much of this is due to the years of disingenuous and contradictory rhetoric among Republican politicians about just what is wrong with the Affordable Care Act and what should be done to fix it.
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"Any organization run by a 60+ year old that says that it isn't in transition is either naïve or disingenuous," Dalio added, noting a 10-year process started around 2010 to eventually replace him.
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"It's pretty disingenuous to discount an entire gender based on a sample size of seven women," Speier, ranking member on the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, said in a written statement.
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For example, complimenting a host for serving a wonderful dinner that was hardly edible may be disingenuous, but being polite in that situation is preferable to facing the social consequences of telling the truth.
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But the attacks on Barrett also reveal as utterly disingenuous the feminists' purported goal of breaking the "glass ceiling" in order to allow more women to succeed at the very highest levels of government.
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" In a letter to shareholders Thursday, Wynn Resorts' board said Elaine Wynn's "campaign has been entirely disingenuous and is only serving to undercut the stability and progress we are making to transform Wynn Resorts.
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And here may be yet another factor that draws people to Trump and draws them to nihilism as well: the suspicion that the moral niceties of their fellow Americans are either disingenuous or delusional.
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"Shortly before my meeting with you in early December, DOJ subsequently located and produced numerous FD-85033s pertaining to the Steele dossier, thereby rendering the initial response disingenuous at best," Nunes wrote to Rosenstein.
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He was tall and burly, with a bull neck, eyes that widened with shock or narrowed to menacing slits, a disingenuous smile and big ham hands to grip the gun or slap the girl.
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"To single out our building is disingenuous, in that, we are nowhere near, not even close, to the condition of Ghost Ship," Laura Shapiro emphatically says to me over the phone in mid-December.
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To suggest otherwise is to give a disingenuous prognosis to potential patients and their parents, and discounts the hard work successful C.I. users do to communicate in a way the hearing world deems acceptable.
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"It is deeply disingenuous to suggest that the need to pre-empt urban areas' ordinances is so we can bring broadband to rural areas," said Mitsuko R. Herrera, the county's technology special projects director.
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Edith Prentiss, who relies on a wheelchair to get around, believes the pearl-clutching over security is disingenuous and is really simply an excuse by opponents to keep the elevators from their upscale block.
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"Citizens had asked for a citizens' review board, and for him to say now we have one, in fact it's the same thing we've always had, that was really disingenuous," Ms. Williams-Preston said.
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That's why Mackie's response seems so disingenuous -- and why feminists in the entertainment industry are particularly angered by Netflix's abdication of responsibility for the disparity between male and female salaries in their premium show.
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This hyperbole might feel reasonable to someone faced with a social justice mob, but to proponents of cancel culture, it seems more like a disingenuous slippery slope that really only works to marginalize victims.
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For the bulk of the season, Forty especially feels underwritten — a caricature of coastal privilege who inexplicably insists on calling Joe "Old Sport" — and inauthentic, either because he's literally fake or playing someone disingenuous.
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This is what makes the insistence of some liberals that he run as a Democrat so disingenuous: Compete on our turf where the field will be tilted against you, or don't compete at all.
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"To be perfectly blunt, I think it is disingenuous to say you would support a congestion-pricing plan and then talk about the number of carve-outs that you've suggested today," Mr. Carroll said.
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So when I say they're playing a character, I don't want people to think ... I don't necessarily mean they are being fake or that they're somehow selling ... They're sort of doing something that's disingenuous.
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Westbrook's critics also cite her ongoing friendship with Jeffree Star, an astronomically popular beauty guru who has a past peppered with racist and misogynistic scandals and multiple apologies, as indicative of her disingenuous virtue-signaling.
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I think that the Sanders campaign has been learning some hard lessons about the relationship between intense online support and media coverage, and I think that a lot of it has been disingenuous and unfair.
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That said, it would be a bit disingenuous to pretend that conversational commerce is anything other than one point in a litany of proposed uses for the likes of Alexa, running the gamut of credibility.
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