Associations to the word «Disingenuous»
Noun
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Wiktionary
DISINGENUOUS, adjective. Not noble; unbecoming true honor or dignity; mean; unworthy; fake or deceptive.
DISINGENUOUS, adjective. Not ingenuous; not frank or open; uncandid; unworthily or meanly artful.
DISINGENUOUS, adjective. Assuming a pose of naïveté to make a point or for deception.
Dictionary definition
DISINGENUOUS, adjective. 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".
Wise words
In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike
fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the
new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.