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Definition of Disingenuously
1. Adverb. In a disingenuous manner. "Disingenuously, he asked leading questions abut his opponent's work"
Definition of Disingenuously
1. Adverb. In a manner that is not frank or open; deceptively. ¹
2. Adverb. In an unnoble manner; in a manner unbecoming of true honor or dignity; unworthily. ¹
3. Adverb. In a manner that adopts a pose of naivete, possibly to make a point or to deceive. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Disingenuously
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Disingenuously
Literary usage of Disingenuously
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of English and French Idioms: Illustrating, by Phrases and by Jean Roemer (1853)
"-A disingenuous conduct, disingenuously. To act, »peak disingenuously, agir,
parler de mauvaise foi. • une conduite fausse, basse. ..."
2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1834)
"His learned friend (the Solicitor-General) had most disingenuously taken advantage
of a single word in the article, and said it was an attempt to excite the ..."
3. The Real Shelley: New Views of the Poet's Life by John Cordy Jeaffreson (1885)
"There is no reason (apart from certain words of Hogg's narrative that seems to
have been written disingenuously) for thinking a third writ was substituted ..."
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