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Meanings of disingenuousness in English

Catalan
fal·làcia
Spanish
mentira

The quality of being disingenuous and lacking candor.

fal·làcia
Antonyms
Examples for "ingenuousness"
Examples for "ingenuousness"
1
Her mind is rich in all the graces of ingenuousness and modesty.
Jane Talbot
2
The substance of the remaining speeches I have given with perfect ingenuousness.
Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 4
3
His smooth, bronzed boyish face showed ingenuousness and candour in every line.
The Grell Mystery
4
The ingenuousness of youth had insisted on this prolongation of our meeting.
Simon the Jester
5
I could not help smiling at the ingenuousness of the captain's reasoning.
Humphrey Bold: A Story of the Times of Benbow
Usage of disingenuousness in English
1
The FTC had attacked the disingenuousness of the tobacco industry's advertising efforts.
The emperor of all maladies: a biography of cancer
2
The expertness of Obama's performance raised questions about his inconsistency and disingenuousness.
The post-american presidency: the obama administration's war on ...
3
She got out of the difficulty by means of a little disingenuousness.
Demos
4
There is no perfidy with him, no deceit, no disingenuousness, no shade.
White Lies
5
This is at a lower level of disingenuousness than the foreign-language trailer incidents.
The Irish Times
6
The disingenuousness of this proclamation is as remarkable as its hypocrisy.
A Book of Scoundrels
7
He had taken one more step in disingenuousness- asmallmatter.
Born in Exile
8
There you sit, doing penance for the disingenuousness of years.
Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 4
9
Here's some fantastic disingenuousness from the magnificent The Lady Eve.
The Irish Times
10
I sent a note to Peel to-day observing upon the disingenuousness of Grant's speech.
A Political Diary, 1828-1830, Volume II
11
He is a miracle of slippery ineptitude and bungling disingenuousness.
The Irish Times
12
The example, too, on children, was most injurious; it schooled them in deceit and disingenuousness.
Another World: Fragments from the Star City of Montalluyah
13
Scarcely a department of Southern life escapes this fundamental attitude of special pleader and disingenuousness.
Birthright: A Novel
14
It says past truces during which the Tigers rearmed are proof of the LTTE's disingenuousness.
Reuters
15
Such breathtaking disingenuousness echoes last year's mendacious Leave campaign.
The Guardian
16
To accuse Jack was to confess his own disingenuousness.
The Drummer Boy
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Translations for disingenuousness
Spanish
mentira
Disingenuousness through the time