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disingenuous
Word definitions for disingenuous in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ It's disingenuous of politicians to blame journalists for leaks that appear in the press. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ And all he gets are these one-liner and bum steers and cheerful shrugs that may or may not be disingenuous ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 Not noble; unbecoming true honor or dignity; mean; unworthy; fake or deceptive. 2 Not ingenuous; not frank or open; uncandid; unworthily or meanly artful. 3 Assuming a pose of naïveté to make a point or for deception.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Disingenuous \Dis`in*gen"u*ous\, a. Not noble; unbecoming true honor or dignity; mean; unworthy; as, disingenuous conduct or schemes. Not ingenuous; wanting in noble candor or frankness; not frank or open; uncandid; unworthily or meanly artful. So disingenuous ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
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" [syn: ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"lacking in candor," 1650s, from dis- "opposite of" + ingenuous . Related: Disingenuously ; disingenuousness .
Usage examples of disingenuous.
Is not this a little disingenuous, in view of the very careful distinctions made by his critic concerning the experiments performed for the relief of suffering men?
The President, in unfurling his June 2002 doctrine of preemption at West Point, was disingenuous in suggesting that proof of an emerging threat would be needed to trigger action.
Considering the president's unspoken opposition to his candidacy, the remark was disingenuous.
It is idle, it is disingenuous, to deny or to dissemble the early depravations of Christianity, its gradual but rapid departure from its primitive simplicity and purity, still more, from its spirit of universal love.
It is idle, it is disingenuous, to deny or to dissemble the early depravations of Christianity, its gradual but rapid departure from its primitive simplicity and purity, still more, from its spirit of universal love.
With his baby face and disingenuous manner, he'd have garnered plenty of public sympathy for being led astray by a loose woman.
Hence Rufus, for the most part, did discourage them, and made use of that as a criterion of the ingenuous and disingenuous.
She had the knack of seeming full of disingenuous chatter but I already felt that nothing vital would be wheedled out of this witness.