Disingenuous Synonyms and Antonyms

dĭsĭn-jĕnyo͝o-əs
Not being what one purports to be
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. ambidextrous
  2. insincere
  3. artful
  4. left-handed
  5. mala fide
Antonyms:
  1. ingenuous
  2. honest
  3. frank
  4. naive
  5. sincere
Not honest
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. uncandid
  2. deceitful
  3. calculating
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Marked by treachery or deceit
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. devious
  2. duplicitous
  3. guileful
  4. indirect
  5. lubricious
  6. shifty
  7. sneaky
  8. underhand
  9. underhanded

Words Related to Disingenuous

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Disingenuous Sentence Examples

  • I don't appreciate when you equivocate with me, it seems disingenuous.

  • These people are lying, or at best being disingenuous.

  • You have to be pretty thick not to see through all this - or extremely disingenuous.

  • Himself the soul of honour and truthfulness, he had no toleration for the disingenuous arguments and the mis-statements of facts of those who wrote to support a theory or to defend an unsound cause.

  • And when he heaps suspicion, not on Christian dogmas, but on beliefs of which the resemblance to Christian tenets is sufficiently patent, the real aim is so transparent that his method seems to partake rather of the nature of literary eccentricity than of polemical artifice; yet by this disingenuous indirectness he gave his argument that savour of duplicity which ever after clung to the popular conception of deism.

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