disingenuous

形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Not honourable; unworthy of honour.
  2. Not ingenuous; not frank or open.
    — I am not so vain as to think these Remarks free from faults, nor so disingenuous as not to confess them:
  3. Assuming a pose of naïveté to make a point or for deception.
    — But was it responsible governance to pass the Longitude Act without other efforts to protect British seamen? Or might it have been subterfuge—a disingenuous attempt to shift attention away from the realities of their life at sea.

词形变化

more disingenuous comparative most disingenuous superlative

词汇关系

衍生词
disingenuously disingenuousness

词源

Etymology tree
Latin dis-
Old French des-bor.
Latin dis-bor.
Middle English dis-
English dis-
English ingenuous
English disingenuous
From dis- + ingenuous.
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