"disingenuous" meaning in English

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Adjective

IPA: /ˌdɪs.ɪnˈd͡ʒɛn.ju.əs/ Audio: en-us-disingenuous.ogg , en-au-disingenuous.ogg Forms: more disingenuous [comparative], most disingenuous [superlative]
Etymology: dis- + ingenuous Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|dis|ingenuous}} dis- + ingenuous Head templates: {{en-adj}} disingenuous (comparative more disingenuous, superlative most disingenuous)
  1. Not honourable; unworthy of honour.
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  2. Not ingenuous; not frank or open. Synonyms: uncandid
    Sense id: en-disingenuous-en-adj-V-DcK2SW Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms prefixed with dis-, Terms with Catalan translations, Terms with Danish translations, Terms with Dutch translations, Terms with Esperanto translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Japanese translations, Terms with Macedonian translations, Terms with Mandarin translations, Terms with Maori translations, Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations, Terms with Polish translations, Terms with Portuguese translations, Terms with Romanian translations, Terms with Russian translations, Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations, Terms with Slovak translations, Terms with Spanish translations, Terms with Swedish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 36 39 24 Disambiguation of English terms prefixed with dis-: 37 34 29 Disambiguation of Terms with Catalan translations: 36 39 24 Disambiguation of Terms with Danish translations: 36 38 26 Disambiguation of Terms with Dutch translations: 37 32 31 Disambiguation of Terms with Esperanto translations: 38 37 25 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 35 38 26 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 36 32 32 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 36 35 29 Disambiguation of Terms with Japanese translations: 36 35 29 Disambiguation of Terms with Macedonian translations: 35 38 26 Disambiguation of Terms with Mandarin translations: 38 35 28 Disambiguation of Terms with Maori translations: 36 39 24 Disambiguation of Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations: 35 38 26 Disambiguation of Terms with Polish translations: 36 36 28 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 36 39 24 Disambiguation of Terms with Romanian translations: 35 38 26 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 36 35 29 Disambiguation of Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations: 37 39 25 Disambiguation of Terms with Slovak translations: 35 38 26 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 37 34 29 Disambiguation of Terms with Swedish translations: 36 39 24
  3. Assuming a pose of naïveté to make a point or for deception.
    Sense id: en-disingenuous-en-adj-Uq4pSRE3 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms prefixed with dis-, Terms with Catalan translations, Terms with Danish translations, Terms with Dutch translations, Terms with Esperanto translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Japanese translations, Terms with Macedonian translations, Terms with Mandarin translations, Terms with Maori translations, Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations, Terms with Polish translations, Terms with Portuguese translations, Terms with Romanian translations, Terms with Russian translations, Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations, Terms with Slovak translations, Terms with Spanish translations, Terms with Swedish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 36 39 24 Disambiguation of English terms prefixed with dis-: 37 34 29 Disambiguation of Terms with Catalan translations: 36 39 24 Disambiguation of Terms with Danish translations: 36 38 26 Disambiguation of Terms with Dutch translations: 37 32 31 Disambiguation of Terms with Esperanto translations: 38 37 25 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 35 38 26 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 36 32 32 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 36 35 29 Disambiguation of Terms with Japanese translations: 36 35 29 Disambiguation of Terms with Macedonian translations: 35 38 26 Disambiguation of Terms with Mandarin translations: 38 35 28 Disambiguation of Terms with Maori translations: 36 39 24 Disambiguation of Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations: 35 38 26 Disambiguation of Terms with Polish translations: 36 36 28 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 36 39 24 Disambiguation of Terms with Romanian translations: 35 38 26 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 36 35 29 Disambiguation of Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations: 37 39 25 Disambiguation of Terms with Slovak translations: 35 38 26 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 37 34 29 Disambiguation of Terms with Swedish translations: 36 39 24
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: disingenuously, disingenuousness Translations (not noble; unbecoming true honor): fals (Catalan), hipòcrita (Catalan), 虛情假意的 (Chinese Mandarin), 虚情假意的 (xūqíngjiǎyì de) (Chinese Mandarin), 不誠實的 (Chinese Mandarin), 不诚实的 (bù chéngshí de) (Chinese Mandarin), uærlig (Danish), uoprigtig (Danish), falsk (Danish), uvederhæftig (Danish), oneerlijk (Dutch), onwaardig (Dutch), onoprecht (Dutch), achterbaks (Dutch), malsincera (Esperanto), petollinen (Finnish), vilpillinen (Finnish), sournois (French), malhonnête (French), unaufrichtig (German), unehrlich (German), unwürdig (German), hinterlistig (German), verschlagen (German), unredlich (German), 不誠実な (fuseijitsu na) (alt: ふせいじつな) (Japanese), не́искрен (néiskren) [masculine] (Macedonian), kōpūrau (Maori), kōpūngahuru (Maori), uoppriktig (Norwegian Bokmål), uærlig (Norwegian Bokmål), falsk (Norwegian Bokmål), niehonorowy (Polish), falso (Portuguese), vil (Portuguese), necinstit (Romanian), неи́скренний (neískrennij) (Russian), нѐискрен [Cyrillic, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), nèiskren [Roman, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), nečestný (Slovak), falso (Spanish), poco sincero (Spanish), lömsk (Swedish)
Disambiguation of 'not noble; unbecoming true honor': 51 45 4

Alternative forms

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      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "not noble; unbecoming true honor",
      "word": "onwaardig"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "51 45 4",
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "not noble; unbecoming true honor",
      "word": "onoprecht"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "51 45 4",
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "not noble; unbecoming true honor",
      "word": "achterbaks"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "51 45 4",
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "not noble; unbecoming true honor",
      "word": "malsincera"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "51 45 4",
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "not noble; unbecoming true honor",
      "word": "petollinen"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "51 45 4",
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "not noble; unbecoming true honor",
      "word": "vilpillinen"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "51 45 4",
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "not noble; unbecoming true honor",
      "word": "sournois"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "51 45 4",
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "not noble; unbecoming true honor",
      "word": "malhonnête"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "51 45 4",
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "not noble; unbecoming true honor",
      "word": "unaufrichtig"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "51 45 4",
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "not noble; unbecoming true honor",
      "word": "unehrlich"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "51 45 4",
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "not noble; unbecoming true honor",
      "word": "unwürdig"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "51 45 4",
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "not noble; unbecoming true honor",
      "word": "hinterlistig"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "51 45 4",
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "not noble; unbecoming true honor",
      "word": "verschlagen"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "51 45 4",
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "not noble; unbecoming true honor",
      "word": "unredlich"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "51 45 4",
      "alt": "ふせいじつな",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "fuseijitsu na",
      "sense": "not noble; unbecoming true honor",
      "word": "不誠実な"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "51 45 4",
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "néiskren",
      "sense": "not noble; unbecoming true honor",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "не́искрен"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "51 45 4",
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "not noble; unbecoming true honor",
      "word": "kōpūrau"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "51 45 4",
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "not noble; unbecoming true honor",
      "word": "kōpūngahuru"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "51 45 4",
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "not noble; unbecoming true honor",
      "word": "uoppriktig"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "51 45 4",
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "not noble; unbecoming true honor",
      "word": "uærlig"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "51 45 4",
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "not noble; unbecoming true honor",
      "word": "falsk"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "51 45 4",
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "not noble; unbecoming true honor",
      "word": "niehonorowy"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "51 45 4",
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "not noble; unbecoming true honor",
      "word": "falso"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "51 45 4",
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "not noble; unbecoming true honor",
      "word": "vil"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "51 45 4",
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "not noble; unbecoming true honor",
      "word": "necinstit"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "51 45 4",
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "neískrennij",
      "sense": "not noble; unbecoming true honor",
      "word": "неи́скренний"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "51 45 4",
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "not noble; unbecoming true honor",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "нѐискрен"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "51 45 4",
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "not noble; unbecoming true honor",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "nèiskren"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "51 45 4",
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "not noble; unbecoming true honor",
      "word": "nečestný"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "51 45 4",
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "not noble; unbecoming true honor",
      "word": "falso"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "51 45 4",
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "not noble; unbecoming true honor",
      "word": "poco sincero"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "51 45 4",
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "not noble; unbecoming true honor",
      "word": "lömsk"
    }
  ],
  "word": "disingenuous"
}
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    "English terms with audio links",
    "Terms with Catalan translations",
    "Terms with Danish translations",
    "Terms with Dutch translations",
    "Terms with Esperanto translations",
    "Terms with Finnish translations",
    "Terms with French translations",
    "Terms with German translations",
    "Terms with Japanese translations",
    "Terms with Macedonian translations",
    "Terms with Mandarin translations",
    "Terms with Maori translations",
    "Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations",
    "Terms with Polish translations",
    "Terms with Portuguese translations",
    "Terms with Romanian translations",
    "Terms with Russian translations",
    "Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations",
    "Terms with Slovak translations",
    "Terms with Spanish translations",
    "Terms with Swedish translations"
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    {
      "word": "disingenuously"
    },
    {
      "word": "disingenuousness"
    }
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      "tags": [
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        "Not honourable; unworthy of honour."
      ],
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          "honourable"
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          "ref": "1726, William Broome, edited by Maynard Mack, The Poems of Alexander Pope: The Odyssey of Homer. Books XIII-XXIV, volume 10, Methuen, published 1969, page 378",
          "text": "I am not so vain as to think these Remarks free from faults, nor so disingenuous as not to confess them:",
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        }
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        {
          "ref": "2012 March 30, William E. Carter, Merri Sue Carter, “The British Longitude Act Reconsidered”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, page 87",
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    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "not noble; unbecoming true honor",
      "word": "fals"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "not noble; unbecoming true honor",
      "word": "hipòcrita"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "not noble; unbecoming true honor",
      "word": "虛情假意的"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "xūqíngjiǎyì de",
      "sense": "not noble; unbecoming true honor",
      "word": "虚情假意的"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "not noble; unbecoming true honor",
      "word": "不誠實的"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "bù chéngshí de",
      "sense": "not noble; unbecoming true honor",
      "word": "不诚实的"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "not noble; unbecoming true honor",
      "word": "uærlig"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "not noble; unbecoming true honor",
      "word": "uoprigtig"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "not noble; unbecoming true honor",
      "word": "falsk"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "not noble; unbecoming true honor",
      "word": "uvederhæftig"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "not noble; unbecoming true honor",
      "word": "oneerlijk"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "not noble; unbecoming true honor",
      "word": "onwaardig"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "not noble; unbecoming true honor",
      "word": "onoprecht"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "not noble; unbecoming true honor",
      "word": "achterbaks"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "not noble; unbecoming true honor",
      "word": "malsincera"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "not noble; unbecoming true honor",
      "word": "petollinen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "not noble; unbecoming true honor",
      "word": "vilpillinen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "not noble; unbecoming true honor",
      "word": "sournois"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "not noble; unbecoming true honor",
      "word": "malhonnête"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "not noble; unbecoming true honor",
      "word": "unaufrichtig"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "not noble; unbecoming true honor",
      "word": "unehrlich"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "not noble; unbecoming true honor",
      "word": "unwürdig"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "not noble; unbecoming true honor",
      "word": "hinterlistig"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "not noble; unbecoming true honor",
      "word": "verschlagen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "not noble; unbecoming true honor",
      "word": "unredlich"
    },
    {
      "alt": "ふせいじつな",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "fuseijitsu na",
      "sense": "not noble; unbecoming true honor",
      "word": "不誠実な"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "néiskren",
      "sense": "not noble; unbecoming true honor",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "не́искрен"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "not noble; unbecoming true honor",
      "word": "kōpūrau"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "not noble; unbecoming true honor",
      "word": "kōpūngahuru"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "not noble; unbecoming true honor",
      "word": "uoppriktig"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "not noble; unbecoming true honor",
      "word": "uærlig"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "not noble; unbecoming true honor",
      "word": "falsk"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "not noble; unbecoming true honor",
      "word": "niehonorowy"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "not noble; unbecoming true honor",
      "word": "falso"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "not noble; unbecoming true honor",
      "word": "vil"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "not noble; unbecoming true honor",
      "word": "necinstit"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "neískrennij",
      "sense": "not noble; unbecoming true honor",
      "word": "неи́скренний"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "not noble; unbecoming true honor",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "нѐискрен"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "not noble; unbecoming true honor",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "nèiskren"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "not noble; unbecoming true honor",
      "word": "nečestný"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "not noble; unbecoming true honor",
      "word": "falso"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "not noble; unbecoming true honor",
      "word": "poco sincero"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "not noble; unbecoming true honor",
      "word": "lömsk"
    }
  ],
  "word": "disingenuous"
}

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