(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.
Ignobly
Definition:
(adv.) In an ignoble manner; basely.
Example Sentences:
(1) Minutes after Howard's ejection, fans at Staples Center cheered and applauded for the final time of the season as injured guard Kobe Bryant emerged from the locker room on crutches to witness the ignoble end of a Lakers season that once seemed so promising.
(2) Facebook Twitter Pinterest An ignoble end for Aaron Craft and Ohio State, unless Craft attempts to return to Ohio State and tries to pretend it's his senior year again.
(3) "That would have been an ignoble thing to do, a shitty thing to do, to a guy who had been grappling with these issues.
(4) He believes Coulson was right to allow his reporters to invade privacy in order to nail wrongdoers: "Investigative journalism is a noble profession but we have to do ignoble things."
(5) Despite the emergence of the scientific journal, only a few authors partly transcended the stereotypes of the noble-ignoble savage.
(6) Ignoble though it is, that's just part of being human - though our capacity to liberate ourselves from pure self-interest means that it does not excuse this indifference.
(7) Will go down as another missed opportunity October 19, 2012 Sony Kapoor (@SonyKapoor) All things considered, This has been a rather IGNOBLE summit!
(8) There was nothing ignoble about the Liberal Democrats entering government with the Tories .
(9) The move followed the ignoble tradition of propaganda against an equal age of consent, civil partnerships and same-sex adoption.
(10) But who will be the real winners and losers of this ignoble friendship that puts trade above human rights?
(11) We have an ignoble record in this country when it comes to emergency legislation.
(12) Here's footage of Spain on their way to the Euro 2008 final against Germany, courtesy of Marca, and - of course - the most ignoble post-match interview in the entire history of the game.
(13) Phil Spencer, the man who’s been in charge of the Xbox business plan since Don Mattrick’s ignoble departure in July 2013, has a stock answer for this.
(14) The running joke is an ignoble device, beloved of TV comedy.
(15) Asked about Maraniss’s tweet accusing him of being vile and ignoble, Garrow said he had never met or spoken to him and denied feeling insulted.
(16) The 1970s was a dangerous time for people of colour – the National Front was active and violent, particularly in south London, and it was an ignoble sacrifice for Powell to attack the most vulnerable and unprotected, those workers who had left their homes to come to Britain.
(17) 1.13am GMT Sugar Bowl And of course the big drama in the Sugar Bowl wasn't Alabama's ignoble defeat, it was this fight in the stands.
(18) This was even true during the actual occupation, with film-makers like Sacha Guitry, Claude Autant-Lara and Jean Cocteau making dubious compromises in order to function as artists, while some of France's great postwar film-makers – André Cayatte and Henri-Georges Clouzot, to name just two – first worked, nobly or ignobly, for Continental, the Nazi-supervised French production outfit.
(19) David Garrow, author of new Obama bio, was vile, undercutting, ignoble competitor unlike any I’ve encountered.” The controversy comes as Obama himself starts to mould his post-presidential career.
(20) We are dealing with experts in propaganda who will stop at nothing to see their version of events prevail, and on the rare occasions when the truth emerges, like a hernia popping through gorged corpse, they apologise discreetly for their ignoble flatulence in a mouse-sized font for hippo-sized lies.