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disingenuously
adverb
formaluk /ˌdɪs.ɪnˈdʒen.ju.əs.li/ us /ˌdɪs.ɪnˈdʒen.ju.əs.li/
in a way that is slightly dishonest or does not give the complete truth:
He disingenuously claims that members who are against the plan are a small minority.
"I don't really know much about it," he says, somewhat disingenuously.
He claims, perhaps disingenuously, to have no memory of what happened that night.
The government has deliberately and disingenuously misrepresented my arguments in an effort to justify its own failures.
The current leadership is disingenuously pretending that the present system is just fine.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
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backdoor
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cunningly
devious
deviously
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