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disingenuous 音标拼音: [dɪsɪndʒ'ɛnjuəs] a. 不老实的,不诚实的,虚伪的 不老实的,不诚实的,虚伪的 disingenuous adj 1: 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"- David Cannadine; " a disingenuous excuse" [ synonym: { disingenuous}, { artful}] [ ant: { artless}, { ingenuous}] Disingenuous \ Dis` in* gen" u* ous\, a. 1. Not noble; unbecoming true honor or dignity; mean; unworthy; as, disingenuous conduct or schemes. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Not ingenuous; wanting in noble candor or frankness; not frank or open; uncandid; unworthily or meanly artful. [ 1913 Webster] So disingenuous as not to confess them [ faults]. -- Pope. -- { Dis` in* gen" u* ous* ly}, adv. -- T. Warton. -- { Dis` in* gen" u* ous* ness}, n. -- Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster] 58 Moby Thesaurus words for " disingenuous": 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
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