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Definition of Disingenuousness
1. Noun. The quality of being disingenuous and lacking candor.
Specialized synonyms: Craftiness, Deceitfulness, Guile, Artfulness
Derivative terms: Disingenuous
Antonyms: Ingenuousness
Definition of Disingenuousness
1. Noun. The state or quality of being disingenuous. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Disingenuousness
Literary usage of Disingenuousness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of the Rise and Fall of the Slave Power in America by Henry Wilson (1877)
"Though this purpose had not been concealed, but openly and defiantly avowed, yet,
with an audacious and brazen disingenuousness, no sooner had it become ..."
2. On the Right Use of the Early Fathers: Two Series of Lectures, Delivered in by John James Blunt (1857)
"... is on the ground of their disingenuousness. What they believe they often
suppress, and what they don't believe they often say.1 This objection has been ..."
3. Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Opinions of the Rev. Samuel Parr, LL.D by William Field (1828)
"... Memoirs of his Life—disingenuousness of that biographer in the opinion of Dr.
Paley, and of Dr. Parr—Death of Mr. Gibbon—Dr. Parr's high opinion of him ..."
4. The Public and Private Life of His Late ... Majesty, George the Third by Robert Huish (1821)
"... upon the disingenuousness of his conduct, and protested that, so long as he
should have the honour to retain his appointment to the care of the royal ..."
5. Introduction to the Literature of Europe in the Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and by Henry Hallam (1841)
"The general fact is indubitable ; and I think we may ascribe much of the hypocrisy
and disingenuousness, which became almost national characteristics in ..."
6. The Fair Haven: A Work in Defence of the Miraculous Element in Our Lord's by Samuel Butler (1873)
"MORE disingenuousness. [Here, perhaps, will be the fittest place for introducing
a letter to my brother from a gentleman who is well known to the public, ..."
7. Charity and the Clergy: Being a Review by a Protestant Clergyman of the "New by Stephen Colwell (1853)
"Once let the Church become fully imbued with the disingenuousness which so
characterizes the world, and her beauty, purity, and power are gone—she becomes a ..."
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