- Disingenuity
- Disingenuity Dis*in`ge*nu"i*ty, n. Disingenuousness. [Obs.] --Clarendon. [1913 Webster]
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Disingenuity
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disingenuity — dis·ingenuity … English syllables
disingenuity — dəs, (|)dis+ noun Etymology: dis (I) + ingenuity : disingenuous state, behavior, or act … Useful english dictionary
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improbity — I noun artfulness, breach of trust, corruption, craftiness, crookedness, deceit, deceitfulness, deviousness, dishonesty, disingenuity, disingenuousness, duplicity, falsehood, falseness, falsity, fraud, fraudulence, fraudulency, furtiveness, graft … Law dictionary
indirection — I (deceitfulness) noun concealment of truth, cozenage, craft, craftiness, cunning, deceit, deception, deviousness, dishonesty, disingenuity, disingenuousness, dissimulation, duplicity, falsehood, falseness, fraud, fraudulency, guile, hypocrisy,… … Law dictionary
disingenuous — [ˌdɪsɪn dʒɛnjʊəs] adjective not sincere, especially in pretending that one knows less about something than one really does. Derivatives disingenuity noun disingenuously adverb disingenuousness noun … English new terms dictionary
lying — n 1. untruthfulness, truthlessness, unveracity, unveraciousness, mendacity, mendaciousness; dishonesty, crookedness, deceit, deceitfulness, falseness, falsity, hypocrisy, double dealing; guile, guilefulness, disingenuity, disingenuousness,… … A Note on the Style of the synonym finder
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dis|in|ge|nu|i|ty — «dihs IHN juh NOO uh tee, NYOO », noun. disingenuous quality; disingenuousness: »Mr. Butler, with an air of disingenuity, pretended that he was only anxious that as many Labour voters should get to the poll as possible (Punch) … Useful english dictionary
