disingenuousness
71insincerity — n 1. disingenuousness, uncandidness, unfrankness, mealy mouthedness; artificiality, Inf. phoniness, dissembling, dissimulation, cant, lip service, mouth honor, Inf. hokum, flattery, smooth talk; deceit fulness, dishonesty, underhandedness,… …
72lying — n 1. untruthfulness, truthlessness, unveracity, unveraciousness, mendacity, mendaciousness; dishonesty, crookedness, deceit, deceitfulness, falseness, falsity, hypocrisy, double dealing; guile, guilefulness, disingenuity, disingenuousness,… …
73mendacity — n 1. untruthfulness, inveracity, prevarication, equivocation, evasion, truthlessness; falsity, falseness, mendaciousness, deceit, duplicity, deception, dissimulation, crookedness; hypocrisy, disingenuousness, guilefulness, double dealing. 2.… …
74disingenuous — /ˌdɪsɪnˈdʒɛnjuəs/ (say .disin jenyoohuhs) adjective not ingenuous; lacking in frankness, candour, or sincerity; insincere: * As if I ever thought of it! mocked Rose, which was disingenuous of her. –ada cambridge, 1904. –disingenuously, adverb… …
75falsity — [n] dishonesty, deception canard, cheating, deceit, deceptiveness, disingenuousness, double dealing, duplicity, erroneousness, error, faithlessness, fake, fallacy, falsehood, fib, fraud, fraudulence, hypocrisy, inaccuracy, infidelity, insincerity …
76disingenuous — ► ADJECTIVE ▪ not candid or sincere, especially in feigning ignorance. DERIVATIVES disingenuously adverb disingenuousness noun …
77disingenuously — disingenuous ► ADJECTIVE ▪ not candid or sincere, especially in feigning ignorance. DERIVATIVES disingenuously adverb disingenuousness noun …
78disingenuous — [dis΄in jen′yo͞o əs] adj. 1. not straightforward; not candid or frank; insincere 2. slyly deceptive or misleading, typically by means of a pretense of ignorance or unawareness disingenuously adv. disingenuousness n …
79artfulness — noun the quality of being adroit in taking unfair advantage • Ant: ↑artlessness • Derivationally related forms: ↑artful • Hypernyms: ↑disingenuousness • Hyponyms: ↑cunning …
80craftiness — noun 1. shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception • Syn: ↑craft, ↑cunning, ↑foxiness, ↑guile, ↑slyness, ↑wiliness • Derivationally related forms: ↑wily ( …
