About The Word Disingenuous
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Disingenuous
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What's The Definition Of Disingenuous?
[adj] not straightforward or candid; giving a false appearance of frankness; "an ambitious, disingenuous, philistine, and hypocritical operator, who...exemplified...the most disagreeable traits of his time"- David Cannadine; "a disingenuous excuse"
Synonyms | Synonyms for Disingenuous: artful | distorted | misrepresented | perverted | twisted Related Terms | Find terms related to Disingenuous: apparently sound | artful | calculating | casuistic | clever | colorable | contriving | crafty | cunning | deceitful | deceptive | designing | devious | dishonest | double-dealing | duplicitous | empty | fallacious | false | falsehearted | feigned | forsworn | foxy | guileful | hollow | hypocritical | illusive | indirect | insidious | insincere | jesuitic | left-handed | mealymouthed | oblique | overrefined | oversubtle | perjured | philosophistic | plausible | plotting | scheming | shifty | slick | sly | smooth | sophistic | sophistical | specious | tongue in cheek | tricky | two-faced | uncandid | underhanded | unfrank | unserious | unsincere | untruthful | wily See Also | insincere Disingenuous In Webster's Dictionary \Dis`in*gen"u*ous\, a.
1. Not noble; unbecoming true honor or dignity; mean;
unworthy; as, disingenuous conduct or schemes.
2. Not ingenuous; wanting in noble candor or frankness; not
frank or open; uncandid; unworthily or meanly artful.
So disingenuous as not to confess them [faults].
--Pope.
-- {Dis`in*gen"u*ous*ly}, adv. --T. Warton. --
{Dis`in*gen"u*ous*ness}, n. --Macaulay.
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