What's the difference between disingenuously and openly?

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.

Openly


Definition:

  • (adv.) In an open manner; publicly; not in private; without secrecy.
  • (adv.) Without reserve or disguise; plainly; evidently.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) says Gregg Wallace opening the new series of Celebrity MasterChef (Mon-Fri, 2.15pm, BBC1).
  • (2) Open field behaviors and isolation-induced aggression were reduced by anxiolytics, at doses which may be within the sedative-hypnotic range.
  • (3) His son, Karim Makarius, opened the gallery to display some of the legacy bequeathed to him by his father in 2009, as well as the work of other Argentine photographers and artists – currently images by contemporary photographer Facundo de Zuviria are also on show.
  • (4) Blatter requires a two-thirds majority of the 209 voters to triumph in the opening round, with a simple majority required if it goes to a second round.
  • (5) Clonazepam was added to the treatment of patients with poorly controlled epilepsy in a double-blind trial and an open trial.
  • (6) By hybridization studies, three plasmids in two forms (open circular and supercoiled) were detected in the strain A24.
  • (7) It is the only fully-fledged casino to open in the region, outside Lebanon.
  • (8) Sixty-six patients were followed for 12 months in an open safety study.
  • (9) The PUP founder made the comments at a voters’ forum and press conference during an open day held at his Palmer Coolum Resort, where he invited the electorate to see his giant robotic dinosaur park, memorabilia including his car collection and a concert by Dean Vegas, an Elvis impersonator.
  • (10) The purpose of the present study was to analyze the effects of cromakalim (BRL 34915), a potent drug from a new class of drugs characterized as "K+ channel openers", on the electrical activity of human skeletal muscle.
  • (11) An opening wedge osteotomy is then directed posterior-dorsal to anterior-plantar, to effectively plantarflex the posterior aspect of the calcaneus.
  • (12) … or a theatre and concert hall There are a total of 16 ghost stations on the Paris metro; stops that were closed or never opened.
  • (13) The decline in the frequency of serious complications was primarily due to a decrease in the proportion of patients with open fractures treated with plate osteosynthesis from nearly 50% to 19%.
  • (14) At 100 microM-ACh the apparent open time became shorter probably due to channel blockade by ACh molecules.
  • (15) 'The French see it as an open and shut case,' says a Paris-based diplomat.
  • (16) The White House denied there had been an agreement, but said it was open in principle to such negotations.
  • (17) The following model is suggested: exogenous ATP interacts with a membrane receptor in the presence of Ca2+, a cascade of events occurs which mobilizes intracellular calcium, thereby increasing the cytosolic free Ca2+ concentration which consequently opens the calcium-activated K+ channels, which then leads to a change in membrane potential.
  • (18) The data indicate greater legitimacy and openness in discussing holocaust-related issues in the homes of ex-partisans than in the homes of ex-prisoners in concentration camps.
  • (19) He also plans to build a processing facility where tourists can gain firsthand experience of the fisheries industry, and to open a restaurant.
  • (20) He had been just asked to open their new town hall, in the hope he might donate a Shakespeare statue.