Citations:disingenuity


 * 1839, Robert Woodrow: The History of the Sufferings of the Church of Scotland, p 133:
 * I need not vindicate this good man from the charge of disingenuity ; it is the common pretext at this time for his barbarous way of proceeding. He had ingenuously told all he knew in this matter before.
 * 1993, Os Guinness: American Hour, p 201:
 * A typical example of disingenuity was a minor furor over an education bill in 1984 that had tacked onto it a paragraph prohibiting grants for "any course of instruction the substance of which is secular humanism".
 * 2011, Jeffrey L. Buller: The Essential Department Chair: A Comprehensive Desk Reference:
 * Preference may be given to applicants with previous experience in teaching the methods of disingenuity or the theory and practice of duplicity at the college level.
 * 2015, Mark Richard: Truth and Truth Bearers: Meaning in Context, p 124:
 * I can do this without disingenuity even when I reject your values. [...] But if there is no disingenuity here, surely there is nothing that can be called an abuse of language.