Disingenuous vs Fake - What's the difference?
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Not noble; unbecoming true honor or dignity; mean; unworthy; fake or deceptive.
Not ingenuous; not frank or open; uncandid; unworthily or meanly artful.
* 1726 , , The Poems of Alexander Pope: The Odyssey of Homer. Books XIII-XXIV , edited by Maynard Mack, Methuen, 1969, volume 10, page 378:
Assuming a pose of naivete to make a point or for deception.
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Not real; false, fraudulent.
Something which is not genuine, or is presented fraudulently.
A trick; a swindle.
(soccer) Move meant to deceive an opposing player, used for gaining advantage when dribbling an opponent.
To cheat; to swindle; to steal; to rob.
To make; to construct; to do. (rfexample)
To modify fraudulently, so as to make an object appear better or other than it really is; as, to fake a bulldog, by burning his upper lip and thus artificially shortening it.
To make a counterfeit, to counterfeit, to forge, to falsify.
To make a false display of, to affect, to feign, to simulate.
(nautical) One of the circles or windings of a cable or hawser, as it lies in a coil; a single turn or coil.
(nautical) To coil (a rope, line, or hawser), by winding alternately in opposite directions, in layers usually of zigzag or figure of eight form, to prevent twisting when running out.
As adjectives the difference between disingenuous and fake
is that disingenuous is not noble; unbecoming true honor or dignity; mean; unworthy; fake or deceptive while fake is not real; false, fraudulent.As a noun fake is
something which is not genuine, or is presented fraudulently.As a verb fake is
to cheat; to swindle; to steal; to rob.disingenuous
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Adjective
(en adjective)- I am not so vain as to think these Remarks free from faults, nor so disingenuous as not to confess them:
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Usage notes
* Nouns to which "disingenuous" is often applied: attempt, argument, statement, conduct, people, excuse, question, assertion.Derived terms
* disingenuously * disingenuousnessExternal links
* * *fake
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Etymology 1
(wikipedia fake) The origin is not known with certainty, although first attested in 1775Adjective
(en-adj)- Which fur coat looks fake ?