Disingenuous vs Malice - What's the difference?
disingenuous | malice |
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.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2012-03
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Intention to harm or deprive in an illegal or immoral way. Desire to take pleasure in another's misfortune.
* 1981 , , Valis , ISBN 0-553-20594-3, page 67:
As an adjective disingenuous
is not noble; unbecoming true honor or dignity; mean; unworthy; fake or deceptive.As a noun malice is
intention to harm or deprive in an illegal or immoral way desire to take pleasure in another's misfortune.disingenuous
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- I am not so vain as to think these Remarks free from faults, nor so disingenuous as not to confess them:
citation, passage=But was it responsible governance to pass the Longitude Act without other efforts to protect British seamen? Or might it have been subterfuge—a disingenuous attempt to shift attention away from the realities of their life at sea.}}
Usage notes
* Nouns to which "disingenuous" is often applied: attempt, argument, statement, conduct, people, excuse, question, assertion.Derived terms
* disingenuously * disingenuousnessExternal links
* * *malice
English
Noun
(-)- not only was there no gratitude (which he could psychologically handle) but downright malice showed itself instead.