What's the difference between disingenuously and frank?

Disingenuously


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "What has made that worse is the disingenuous way the force has defended their actions.
  • (2) Mallon's finance and resources director, Paul Slocombe, thinks Pickles's argument is "slightly disingenuous" because the funding was part of the last spending review, which ends on 31 March.
  • (3) They had to see off a driven and capable Everton team and Roberto Martínez was not being disingenuous when he said the final score felt like a deception.
  • (4) It is disingenuous to publish the document on the grounds that ‘Americans can make up their own minds’.
  • (5) At one point, Walters speculates that “she looks the same weight as the Duchess – about 8st”; later, he disingenuously asks her to discuss “the cruel comments about being a ‘childless spinster’”, neither telling readers who made those “cruel comments” in the first place, or where.
  • (6) The transport minister's constant repetition – to boost the HS2 project – that the Olympics and HS1 were delivered within budget is disingenuous to say the least ( Report , 20 October), since it deliberately fails to distinguish between the original and final budgets.
  • (7) The Gold Cup stakes are higher for the players than the coach Despite the next two tricky games in September, against fellow frontrunners Costa Rica and Mexico, it's getting pretty disingenuous not to be talking about the squad for Brazil at this point.
  • (8) This advice will be provided to a range of personnel in Saudi headquarters and the Saudi ministry of defence.” Commenting on the MoD assistance to the Saudis, Omran Belhadi, a case worker at Reprieve, said: “Claims by ministers that Britain is helping the Saudi government abide by the law are disingenuous.
  • (9) Asked on Wednesday if it was disingenuous to say Labor axed the funding, he replied: “The Coalition are like a bunch of B-team magicians trying to make you look everywhere except where the magic trick is actually happening so you can’t work out what’s going on.
  • (10) Not so, it seems … Actually, I think the company is being disingenuous here.
  • (11) He turns up over and over again WikiLeaks published troves of hacked emails last year that damaged Hillary Clinton’s campaign and is suspected of having cooperated with Russia through third parties, according to recent congressional testimony by the former CIA director John Brennan , who also said the adamant denials of collusion by Assange and Russia were disingenuous.
  • (12) It’s disingenuous of Rupert Murdoch to say otherwise.” Murdoch watchers see the dual-track emoting of his Twitter feed and the editorial pages of his newspapers as symbiotic.
  • (13) It was disingenuous given Tesco's pride in its exacting management of suppliers: the relentless cost-cutting of suppliers was always going to lead to corner cutting.
  • (14) Sean O'Driscoll, chairman of the Glen Dimplex manufacturing group, said proponents of a no vote on 31 May were being "disingenuous" in claiming the republic could remain in the euro even if the electorate rejected the EU fiscal treaty.
  • (15) How would the changes to 18C protect [society] from another attack like Paris?” The race discrimination commissioner, Tim Soutphommasane, said that bringing up 18C in relation to the Paris attacks was disingenuous as the act did not cover religious discrimination.
  • (16) The claim that this is not about some kind of financial reimbursement or transaction seems disingenuous.
  • (17) It's even worse to see this corporate victory, helping their profits and harming our health, dressed up in the disingenuous mantle of "personal freedom".
  • (18) If I don’t, I’ve got to get a real job.” His claim did seem a little disingenuous as Quickenden is already a TV presenter, managed by a company whose clients include Syco, but his sentiment was clear: this was make or break, all or nothing, and he was desperate to avoid the broken nothingness of real work.
  • (19) One disingenuous objection to fairer taxing of property pleads for cash-poor, asset-rich old folk rattling around in drafty, decrepit mansions.
  • (20) However, an ITV spokesman said it was "simply untrue and disingenuous" for STV to claim that the company had prevented its independent auditor, Deloitte, from carrying out a review of contracts.

Frank


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To shut up in a frank or sty; to pen up; hence, to cram; to fatten.
  • (n.) A pigsty.
  • (n.) The common heron; -- so called from its note.
  • (n.) Unbounded by restrictions, limitations, etc.; free.
  • (n.) Free in uttering one's real sentiments; not reserved; using no disguise; candid; ingenuous; as, a frank nature, conversation, manner, etc.
  • (n.) Liberal; generous; profuse.
  • (n.) Unrestrained; loose; licentious; -- used in a bad sense.
  • (v. t.) To send by public conveyance free of expense.
  • (v. t.) To extempt from charge for postage, as a letter, package, or packet, etc.
  • (a.) The privilege of sending letters or other mail matter, free of postage, or without charge; also, the sign, mark, or signature denoting that a letter or other mail matter is to free of postage.
  • (a.) A member of one of the German tribes that in the fifth century overran and conquered Gaul, and established the kingdom of France.
  • (a.) A native or inhabitant of Western Europe; a European; -- a term used in the Levant.
  • (a.) A French coin. See Franc.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) To be fair to lads who find themselves just a bus ride from Auschwitz, a visit to the camp is now considered by many tourists to be a Holocaust "bucket list item", up there with the Anne Frank museum, where Justin Bieber recently delivered this compliment : "Anne was a great girl.
  • (2) The greatest stars who emerged from the early talent shows – Frank Sinatra, Gladys Knight, Tony Bennett – were artists with long careers.
  • (3) • Harriet Harman gives a frank interview about the olden days, in which she reveals a passionate affair with Arthur Scargill.
  • (4) The Ajax coach Frank de Boer has confirmed that Tottenham Hotspur have approached the Amsterdam club to test his interest in coaching the club.
  • (5) They’ve already collaborated with folks like DOOM, Ghostface Killah and Frank Ocean; I was lucky enough to hear a sneak peek of their incredible collaboration with Future Islands’ Sam Herring from their forthcoming album.
  • (6) Absolute has raised its profile with big-name signings such as Frank Skinner and bought live Premier League football rights for the first time for this season .
  • (7) Two term newborn infants born by frank breech delivery had posterior fossa hemorrhage diagnosed by CT scan within the first 72 hours of life and underwent successful surgical drainage of hematoma.
  • (8) After the formal PIRC inquiry was triggered by the lord advocate, Frank Mulholland, Bayoh’s family said police gave them five different accounts of what had happened before eventually being told late on Sunday afternoon how he died.
  • (9) To be frank, the police cannot cope with the extent of abuse on social media.
  • (10) Frankly, the pair had been at each other ever since the Frenchman had come on to the pitch.
  • (11) Moreover, S-phase prolongation was observed with the malignant changes, and the cell cycle time did not differ markedly among normal epithelium (22.8 hr), anaplastic epithelium (23.0 hr), and frank invasive carcinoma (26.1 hr).
  • (12) In any halfway-awake western nation, and, to be frank, in many reaches of British national life, this would be considered an amateurish absurdity, a guarantee of eventual failure.
  • (13) On the other hand, only limited feelings of frankness existed among the residents.
  • (14) Del Piero, who helped greatly increase the A-League’s profile during his two-year stay, was linked by the media to a managerial role at the club when Frank Farina lost his job in April 2014.
  • (15) Some Labour MPs, such as Frank Field and David Miliband, are keen on primaries.
  • (16) Activation of GV by monochromatic 450-nm radiation causes two specific DNA changes in human P3 cells in culture as shown by alkaline elution techniques: single-strand breaks (i.e., alkali-labile sites plus frank strand scissions) and DNA-to-protein covalent bond crosslinks.
  • (17) Five-year actuarial survival rates were 86.6% for frank, 98.8% for microinvasive and 98.8% for in situ carcinomas.
  • (18) "And let's be frank, we're not actually helping anyone by leaving the economic coast clear for others to provide the inward investment that often comes in from elsewhere and may represent tied aid or investment that won't help lift the poorest into employment," she said.
  • (19) But frankly we’re still so troubled by the past, it’s hard to put together our plans for the future,” he said.
  • (20) Regardless of who wins the high court case, appeals are possible and, frankly, likely."