"disingenuous" meaning in English

See disingenuous in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

IPA: /ˌdɪ.sɪnˈd͡ʒɛn.ju.əs/ Audio: en-us-disingenuous.ogg [US], en-au-disingenuous.ogg [Australia] Forms: more disingenuous [comparative], most disingenuous [superlative]
Etymology: Etymology tree Latin dis- Old French des-bor. Latin dis-bor. Middle English dis- English dis- English ingenuous English disingenuous From dis- + ingenuous. Etymology templates: {{ety|en|:af|dis-|ingenuous|text=+|tree=1}} Etymology tree Latin dis- Old French des-bor. Latin dis-bor. Middle English dis- English dis- English ingenuous English disingenuous [Appendix:Glossary#loanword|Borrowed]] from", "terms" : [ { "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "id" : "apart", "children" : [ ], "status" : "missing", "lang_name" : "Latin", "term" : "dis-", "lang" : "la" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "lang_name" : "Old French", "term" : "des-", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "fro" } ], "keyword" : "bor" }, { "keyword_abbrev" : "bor.", "keyword_label" : "Borrowed from", "terms" : [ { "children" : [ ], "lang_name" : "Latin", "term" : "dis-", "status" : "missing", "lang" : "la" } ], "keyword" : "bor" } ], "lang_name" : "Middle English", "term" : "dis-", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "enm" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "lang_name" : "English", "term" : "dis-", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "en" }, { "children" : [ ], "lang_name" : "English", "term" : "ingenuous", "status" : "missing", "lang" : "en" } ], "keyword_label" : "From", "is_group" : true, "keyword" : "affix" } ], "lang_name" : "English", "term" : "disingenuous", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "en" }" data-lang="en" data-title="disingenuous"> From dis- + ingenuous. Head templates: {{en-adj}} disingenuous (comparative more disingenuous, superlative most disingenuous)
  1. Not honourable; unworthy of honour. Translations (not noble; unbecoming true honor): fals (Catalan), hipòcrita (Catalan), 虛情假意的 /虚情假意的 (xūqíngjiǎyì de) (Chinese Mandarin), 不誠實的 /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), hinterhältig (German), 不誠実な (fuseijitsu na) (alt: ふせいじつな) (Japanese), не́искрен (néiskren) [masculine] (Macedonian), kōpūrau (Māori), kōpūngahuru (Māori), uoppriktig (Norwegian Bokmål), uærlig (Norwegian Bokmål), falsk (Norwegian Bokmål), ناموسسز (namussuz) (note: not honorable) (Ottoman Turkish), niehonorowy (Polish), falso (Portuguese), vil (Portuguese), necinstit (Romanian), неи́скренний (neískrennij) (Russian), нѐискрен [Cyrillic, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), nèiskren [Latin, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), nečestný (Slovak), falso (Spanish), poco sincero (Spanish), desingenuo (Spanish), insincero (Spanish), lömsk (Swedish)
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  2. Not ingenuous; not frank or open. Synonyms: uncandid
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  3. Assuming a pose of naïveté to make a point or for deception.
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: disingenuously, disingenuousness

Alternative forms

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      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "lang_code": "sv",
      "sense": "not noble; unbecoming true honor",
      "word": "lömsk"
    },
    {
      "code": "ota",
      "lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
      "lang_code": "ota",
      "note": "not honorable",
      "roman": "namussuz",
      "sense": "not noble; unbecoming true honor",
      "word": "ناموسسز"
    }
  ],
  "word": "disingenuous"
}

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