"Disingenuously" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... reply to Blackwood (No. xxix. August, 1819), Byron somewhat disingenuously rebuts the charge that Don Juan contained "an elaborate satire on the character and manners of his wife." "If," he writes, "in a poem by no means ascertained to be my production there appears a disagreeable, casuistical, and by no means respectable ...
— The Works of Lord Byron, Volume 6 • Lord Byron
... Madison will not think I forgot her," he disingenuously said, "when in replying to Mrs. Grangeon's invitation I begged permission to bring you, and that she will do me the honor some ...
— Aurora the Magnificent • Gertrude Hall |
