disingenuousness.

Insincerity or evasiveness that presents itself as innocent, straightforward, or honest.

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Words that belong together

• calculated disingenuousness
• the disingenuousness of a claim
• apparent disingenuousness

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The disingenuousness lay in what the question carefully excluded.

She answered his apparent disingenuousness with a date, a name, and a copy of the receipt.

Usage notes

Primary category: psychological / character. Forms: Usually uncountable. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.