disingenuity


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disingenuity

(ˌdɪsɪndʒɪˈnjuːɪtɪ)
n
1. the quality of being disingenuous
2. an underhand dealing
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She was, indeed, a little offended with the former, for the disingenuity which she now discovered.
But this untractableness may be carried too far, and may degenerate into obstinacy, perverseness, or disingenuity. Though it cannot be pretended that the principles of moral and political knowledge have, in general, the same degree of certainty with those of the mathematics, yet they have much better claims in this respect than, to judge from the conduct of men in particular situations, we should be disposed to allow them.
Truth is, the only one who cannot see the disingenuity in this argument must be someone who's easily gullible, or one willingly so as is the case of many, who blindly follows leaders notwithstanding their glaring flaws, which are detrimental to their own interest.
The president spent the best part of the first six months of the year engaging in doublespeak and confusing the issue over who said what to whom in Switzerland, and obfuscating on timelines until the whole issue faded back into oblivion for another while, despite his obvious disingenuity that was contradicted by UN accounts.
'We can, therefore, only marvel at the ingenuity or disingenuity of those who offer solutions that reduce the margin of representation between the permanent and elected members, yet, promote them in the name of a more representative and effective Council,' she said while criticizing those member states who aspire to securing permanent seats in the Council.
'We can , therefore, only marvel at the ingenuity or disingenuity of those who offer solutions that reduce the margin of representation between the permanent and elected members, yet, promote them in the name of a more representative and effective Council,' she said while criticizing those member states who aspire to securing permanent seats in the Council.
Most discussions of the Tech Singularity have been naive to the point of disingenuity, boiling down to starry-eyed encomiums to the power of human intelligence to inventively couple with reality on the physical level of being using technological marvels both real and imagined, including implants, prosthetics, genetic engineering, virtual realities, and above all, a merging of human intelligence with AI.
Regarding Indigenous peoples specifically, Canadian research shows that several Indigenous cultures look upon averted eye contact as a sign of respect rather than disingenuity. (170) Emotional readings of Indigenous witnesses by non-Indigenous triers of fact may also be subject to similat misinterpretations.
Corporate Sustainability Reporting: A Study in Disingenuity. Journal of Business Ethics, 87: 279-288, DOI: 10.1007/s10551-008-9806-0
Corporate sustainability reporting: A study in disingenuity? Journal of Business Ethics 87, 279-288.
(180) Judge Simon found the agency's treatment of climate change effects unconvincing to the point of disingenuity, noting that confining its analysis to the BiOp time frame (on the ground that there was too much uncertainty after 2018) was inconsistent with the fact that a meaningful recovery analysis required consideration of climate effects well beyond the BiOp period.
Nevertheless, rather than simply allotting the entire blame on the disingenuity of Arab regimes one after the other, there happens to be a consensus ranging from the early thinkers such as Negib Azoury and Michel Aflak to the Gulf Monarchies and authoritarian regimes of today that what needs to be recognized is that the ideological clarity desired by such a sweeping vision is simply not present.