wayneL
VIVA LA LIBERTAD, CARAJO!
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visual said:Looked up Disingenous,which I take means false.
Function: adjective
: lacking in candor; also : giving a false appearance of simple frankness : CALCULATING
Because I know you love dictionaries,and will probably quibble the meaning I attributed to the word,heres the proper usage.
USAGE NOTE The meaning of disingenuous has been shifting about lately, as if people were unsure of its proper meaning. Generally, it means “insincere” and often seems to be a synonym of cynical or calculating. Not surprisingly, the word is used often in political contexts, as in It is both insensitive and disingenuous for the White House to describe its aid package and the proposal to eliminate the federal payment as “tough love.” This use of the word is accepted by 94 percent of the Usage Panel. Most Panelists also accept the extended meaning relating to less reproachable behavior. Fully 88 percent accept disingenuous with the meaning “playfully insincere, faux-naïf,” as in the example “I don't have a clue about late Beethoven!” he said. The remark seemed disingenuous, coming from one of the world's foremost concert pianists. Sometimes disingenuous is used as a synonym for naive, as if the dis– prefix functioned as an intensive (as it does in certain words like disannul) rather than as a negative element. This usage does not find much admiration among Panelists, however. Seventy-five percent do not accept it in the phrase a disingenuous tourist who falls prey to stereotypical con artists.
Yes I have fallen for this shifting meaning.
My bad. Thank you for pointing it out.
Yet clearly what you claim isn`t true.
You can question Israel actions,all you like.But Lebanon is not bombed from top to bottom or left to right.
Yes it was. It wasn't just the south that was bombed. Everywhere was bombed.