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disingenuous

adj
/ˌdɪs.ɪnˈd͡ʒɛn.ju.əs/

Etymology

From dis- + ingenuous.

  1. learned borrowing from ingenuus — “of noble character, frank”
  2. prefixed as disingenuous — “dis + ingenuous”

Definitions

  1. Not honourable

    Not honourable; unworthy of honour.

  2. Not ingenuous

    Not ingenuous; not frank or open.

    • I am not so vain as to think these Remarks free from faults, nor so disingenuous as not to confess them:

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

    • But was it responsible governance to pass the Longitude Act without other efforts to protect British seamen? Or might it have been subterfuge—a disingenuous attempt to shift attention away from the realities of their life at sea.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at disingenuous. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at disingenuous. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at disingenuous

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA