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disingenuous
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1 disingenuous
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.
— A disingenuous excuse.
synoniem: artful.
Roget 544:
false,
deceitful,
mendacious,
unveracious,
fraudulent,
dishonest,
faithless,
truthless,
trothless;
unfair,
uncandid;
hollow-hearted;
evasive;
uningenuous,
disingenuous;
hollow,
sincere,
Parthis mendacior;
forsworn.
artificial,
contrived;
canting;
hypocritical,
jesuitical,
pharisaical;
tartuffish;
Machiavelian;
double,
double tongued,
double faced,
double handed,
double minded,
double hearted,
double dealing;
Janus faced;
smooth-faced,
smooth spoken,
smooth tongued;
plausible;
mealy-mouthed;
affected
etc.
855.
collusive,
collusory;
artful
etc.
(cunning)
702;
perfidious
etc.
940;
spurious
etc.
(deceptive)
545;
untrue
etc.
546;
falsified
etc.
v.;
covinous.
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Roget 940:
dishonest,
dishonorable;
unconscientious,
unscrupulous;
fraudulent
etc.
545;
knavish;
disgraceful
etc.
(disreputable)
974;
wicked
etc.
945.
false-hearted,
disingenuous;
unfair,
one-sided;
double,
double-hearted,
double-tongued,
double-faced;
timeserving†,
crooked,
tortuous,
insidious,
Machiavelian,
dark,
slippery;
fishy;
perfidious,
treacherous,
perjured.
infamous,
arrant,
foul,
base,
vile,
ignominious,
blackguard.
contemptible,
unrespectable,
abject,
mean,
shabby,
little,
paltry,
dirty,
scurvy,
scabby,
sneaking,
groveling,
scrubby,
rascally,
pettifogging;
beneath one.
low-minded,
low-thoughted†;
base-minded.
undignified,
indign†;
unbecoming,
unbeseeming†,
unbefitting;
derogatory,
degrading;
infra dignitatem [Lat.],
beneath one's dignity;
ungentlemanly,
ungentlemanlike;
unknightly†,
unchivalric†,
unmanly,
unhandsome;
recreant,
inglorious.
corrupt,
venal;
debased,
mongrel.
faithless,
of bad faith,
false,
unfaithful,
disloyal;
untrustworthy;
trustless,
trothless†;
lost to shame,
dead to honor;
barratrous.
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Nederlands: onoprecht
Moby betekeniswoordenboek: apparently sound, artful, calculating, casuistic, clever, colorable, contriving, crafty, cunning, deceitful, deceptive, designing, devious, dishonest, double-dealing, duplicitous, empty, fallacious, false, falsehearted, feigned, forsworn, foxy, guileful, hollow, hypocritical, illusive, indirect, insidious, insincere, jesuitic, left-handed, mealymouthed, oblique, overrefined, oversubtle, perjured, philosophistic, plausible, plotting, scheming, shifty, slick, sly, smooth, sophistic, sophistical, specious, tongue in cheek, tricky, two-faced, uncandid, underhanded, unfrank, unserious, unsincere, untruthful, wily ... meer laten zien.
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