disingenuous
adjective
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Sense 1 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
Related & opposite
- insincere also see
- artless antonym
- disingenuousness derivation
- artfulness derivation
- misrepresented similar to
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| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
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| 1 | also see | Related & opposite | insincere |
| 1 | antonym | Related & opposite | artless |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | disingenuousness |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | artfulness |
| 1 | similar to | Related & opposite | misrepresented |