disingenuousnessn.
The quality of being disingenuous; want of candour and frankness; disposition to secure advantage by means not morally defensible; insincerity, unfairness.
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the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > disingenuousness > [noun]
uningenuousness1644
unsincerity1646
disingenuity1650
uningenuity1650
disingenuousness1674
uncandidness1681
unsincereness1683
insinceritya1699
uncandour1879
society > morality > moral evil > lack of principle or integrity > [noun] > disingenuousness or insincerity
uningenuousness1644
unsincerity1646
disingenuity1650
uningenuity1650
unsinglenessa1658
disingenuousness1674
uncandidness1681
unsincereness1683
insinceritya1699
uncandour1879
1674 Govt. Tongue iii. §6. 110 The disingeniousness of embracing a profession to which their own hearts have an inward reluctance.
1816 J. Austen Emma III. v. 72 Disingenuousness and double-dealing seemed to meet him at every turn. View more context for this quotation
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. 274 Those statutes..could not without the grossest disingenuousness be so strained.
1881 A. P. Stanley Christian Inst. viii. 167 A singular example either of the disingenuousness or of the negligence with which the Prayerbook was reconstructed.
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