Meaning & use
disingenuous
Not candid or sincere, especially by pretending to know less about something than one actually does.
See it in a sentence
It felt disingenuous when he claimed not to remember the meeting he had scheduled himself.
Critics called the apology disingenuous because the company kept the harmful policy in place.
A note on using this word
Disingenuous implies a subtle, calculated dishonesty rather than an outright lie, often involving feigned innocence or ignorance.
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Words with an opposite meaning
genuinesincere
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