disingenuousness
61insincerity — I (Roget s IV) n. Syn. distortion, falsity, pretense, lies; see deception 1 , dishonesty , hypocrisy . II (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun Lack of sincerity: ambidexterity, artificiality, disingenuousness, phoniness. See HONEST …
62ambidexterity — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun Lack of sincerity: artificiality, disingenuousness, insincerity, phoniness. See HONEST …
63artificiality — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun Lack of sincerity: ambidexterity, disingenuousness, insincerity, phoniness. See HONEST …
64phoniness — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun 1. Lack of sincerity: ambidexterity, artificiality, disingenuousness, insincerity. See HONEST. 2. A show or expression of feelings or beliefs one does not actually hold or possess: hypocrisy, pharisaism,… …
65disingenuous — lacking in candor, 1650s, from DIS (Cf. dis ) opposite of + INGENUOUS (Cf. ingenuous). Related: Disingenuously; disingenuousness …
66Manifest Destiny — A slogan of American territorial expansion that was coined in the 1840s. Justi ficatory rhetoric throughout the continental expansion of the United States was clothed in various garbs, of which Manifest Destiny is the best known, and to invoke …
67disingenuous — [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 …
68evasion — n. 1. Evading. See evade. 2. Shuffling (in the abstract), prevarication, equivocation, quibbling, subterfuge, disingenuousness, sophistry, tergiversation. 3. Shift, subterfuge, equivocation, prevarication, quibble, tergiversation, shuffling,… …
69insincerity — n. Duplicity, hypocrisy, dissimulation, deceitfulness, disingenuousness, dishonesty, falseness, faithlessness, bad faith …
70dishonesty — n 1. falsity, mendacity, untruthfulness, lying, prevaricating; duplicity, double dealing, hypocrisy; disingenuousness, insincerity, improbity; deceit, cheating, crookedness, deviousness, knavery, roguery, rascality, villainy; dirty pool, dirty… …
