If once we admit disingenuousness into the mind, the intellectual life is no longer serene and pure.
If he affected to ignore it, as an objection already answered, there would be disingenuousness in the affectation.
It is either a case of disingenuousness or of remarkable self-deception: there appears to be no third alternative.
But we cannot acquit him of that unconscious disingenuousness from which the most upright man, when strongly attached to an opinion, is seldom wholly free.
We should not then have to blush for the disingenuousness of the most devoted worshipper of speculative truth, for the servility of the boldest champion of intellectual freedom.
This meek and amiable prelate returned to the exercise of his high functions, without a wish of revenging on the protestants, in their adversity, the painful acts of disingenuousness which their late ascendency had forced upon him.
I must tell Griselda at once, lest her Scotch probity should charge me with disingenuousness or evasion.
I could not descend to that disingenuousness I had often counselled others to scorn.
To the unbeliever I can say, "Never yet in any work upon the Christian side have your difficulties been so fully and fairly stated; never yet has orthodox disingenuousness been so unsparingly exposed.
Upon our side, a persistent disingenuousness in our treatment of this minority.
The more this disingenuousness is practised the more the surprise which follows upon its discovery and the more legitimate the bitterness and hatred which that surprise occasions in those of whom we are the hosts.
That unintelligence is allied, of course, to the disingenuousness of which I have spoken; but it is a separate thing none the less, and we can learn from the Jews its opposite, for their dealings with us are always intelligent.
It is an exact parallel to the disingenuousness which we note in social relations.
This disingenuousnessextends from our daily habit to our treatment of history.
Those relations are numerous in the modern world, and disingenuousness in them takes the worst possible form.
This disingenuousness spreads to relations more permanent.
Disingenuousness is, on our side, the first main cause of the friction between the two races.
A woman's instinct at red heat pierces the partial disingenuousness which Robert could only have avoided by declaring the doubts he entertained.
You do not mean it, I know; but there is a disingenuousness in remarks of this sort that is to me exceedingly distasteful.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "disingenuousness" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
