Hong Kong, Portland and the Moral Low Ground

[jmcilhinney]

“Inconceivable!"
"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.”

Nice, but ultimately quite wrong. It means exactly what I think it means and I was using it in exactly that sense. Let's get a definition off the web, shall we?

not candid or sincere, typically by pretending that one knows less about something than one really does.

Now, maybe I'm wrong but I'm assuming that dilettante is smart enough to understand that there's more to those men being identified/identifiable than he described. At the very least, he's making no effort to understand the argument. Alternatively, he's incapable of doing so. I'm giving him the benefit of the doubt and sticking with "disingenuous" but if you would rather go with "dumb" then that's up to you.