Disingenuous

What do we mean by disingenuous?

Not straightforward or candid; insincere or calculating. adjective

Pretending to be unaware or unsophisticated; faux-naïf. adjective

Unaware or uninformed; naive. adjective

Not ingenuous; not open, frank, or candid; uncandid; insincere: as, a disingenuous person; a disingenuous answer.

Not noble; unbecoming true honor or dignity; mean; unworthy. adjective

Not ingenuous; wanting in noble candor or frankness; not frank or open; uncandid; unworthily or meanly artful. adjective

Not noble; unbecoming true honor or dignity; mean; unworthy; fake or deceptive. adjective

Not ingenuous; not frank or open; uncandid; unworthily or meanly artful. adjective

Assuming a pose of naivete to make a point or for deception. adjective

Not straightforward or candid; giving a false appearance of frankness adjective

Not honourable; unworthy of honour

Not ingenuous; not frank or open

Assuming a pose of naïveté to make a point or for deception.

Karl Smith. See also insincere. Urban Dictionary

A young woman whose appearance of artless innocence hides a biting insincerity. Urban Dictionary

To profess ignorance while actually being in the know. Urban Dictionary

FlightReacts Urban Dictionary

Insincere, not straight-forward Urban Dictionary

Pronounced diss - in - genius is a godly word made by FlightReacts and it showed that hes a genius but the cameras werent on Urban Dictionary

A word that gets thrown around in discussions in order to discredit an opposing side, sometimes for stating facts that one side couldn't refute. Often used by individuals to project and can be a gateway to Ad hominem. Urban Dictionary

Maintaining an air of credibility when faced with your own lack of sincerity and honesty. Rarely successful. Urban Dictionary

Disingenuous: lacking in frankness, candor, or sincerity; falsely or hypocritically Assertion: positive statement or declaration, often without support or reason: a mere assertion; an unwarranted assertion. put the two together and you have Disingenuous Assertions so I'll dumb it down for you people Disingenuous Assertions: pretty much lying to make someone look good and something that so infuriating that it makes soldiers want to punch reporters Urban Dictionary

A person that doesn't know something about something so they don't know how to tie their shoes. Urban Dictionary

Words that are spelled similarly to disingenuous:
disingenuous.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word disingenuous:
misleading, litigation, noting, worst, statements, empty, taxes, argued, say, truth, israeli, reality, fact, claim, think, critical, why, question, attempt, claims, attempts, report, word, judge.

Words that rhyme with disingenuous:
ingenuous, strenuous, tenuis.

Adjectives that are often used to describe disingenuous:
little, least.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective disingenuous:
way, argument, statement, conduct, attempt, manner, artifice, claim, use, explanation, arguments, policy, letter, smile, disputants, form, reply, arts, nature, statements, attempts, means, account, remark, question, plea, evasion, answer, spirit, course, treatment, attitude, claims, concealment, position, character, disclaimer, response, excuse, shifts, effort, acts, comment, hostility, artifices, remarks, speech, behavior, tactics, reasoning, exposition, efforts, act, defence, suggestion, approach, motives, tone, denial, purpose, rhetoric, method, ways, reader, mind, fashion, device, defense, apologies, trick, answers, debate, fiction, compilation, person, proceeding, explanations, suppression, note, assertion, behaviour, air, apology, dealing, appeal, strategy, methods, compliances, subtlety, practice, mode, quality, proposal, denials, habit.

Words that sound like disingenuous:
disingenuous, disingenuously, disingenuousness, discontinuous, discontinuance, discontinues, diagenesis, diogenes, dungeness, deangelis.