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...disingenious.

English usage note: if the word you meant to use was "disingenuous", I would suggest "spurious" instead, as it expresses similar feelings about "this distinction", without also attributing unsavory motives to 'pron.



Hey, I like this word "disingenious". I think it could mean "a bad idea being promulgated to displace (what the speaker considers) a much better idea". We need a word for that :-)




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