To be clear it is inappropriate to call someone insincere when there isn’t good evidence for it. I see people throwing around the word “disingenuous” in Hacker News comments a bit too often. It’s an ad hominem disguised as actual discourse and a rare enough word that some people gloss over it or need to look it up. The accusation detracts from discussion about the topic at hand.
The idea that you were misusing the word was more appealing than the truth that you knew what it meant.
The idea that you were misusing the word was more appealing than the truth that you knew what it meant.