To say that women sought part time work by choice was rather disingenuous.

I've been a little disingenuous, because I've expanded it out in all its gory detail.

These measures were rationalized in various ways, but the reality is that by yielding to the demands of a minuscule number of disingenuous activists, the companies opted to offer less safe products to consumers, thereby exposing themselves to legal jeopardy.

For the same reason, it is disingenuous to claim that the troika forced Greece into excessive austerity. Had Greece not received financial support in 2010, it would have had to cut its fiscal deficit from more than 10 of GDP to zero immediately.

It would be both disingenuous and immoral to speak of racism today without referring to anti Semitism, an ever present blight on humanity that had recently gained renewed vigour it was a phenomenon that was not only disagreeable and offensive, but also extremely dangerous.

Obama needed to meet his promise to set a new direction in foreign policy while simultaneously managing to juggle the issues left to him by George W. Bush, any of which, if dropped, could still cause a crisis for his presidency. Nonetheless, there is no reason to believe that Obama was being disingenuous about his objectives.

This creates a paradox in utilizing the scholarly literature on the subject although the effects of armed conflict on treaties received more attention from commentators and courts after the Second World War than in any other era, it would be disingenuous to develop standards of State practice directly from this literature without acknowledging the extremely special situation that a war of this magnitude entails, a special situation that has, thankfully, never presented itself again.