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
Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at
least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are
nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to
build something with them; they do not win their true
meaning until one knows how to apply them.