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dissemble | disingenuous |

As a verb dissemble

is to disguise or conceal something.

As an adjective disingenuous is

not noble; unbecoming true honor or dignity; mean; unworthy; fake or deceptive.

dissemble

English

Verb

(dissembl)
  • To disguise or conceal something.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Dissemble all your griefs and discontents.
  • * J. P. Kemble
  • Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love.
  • To feign.
  • * 1681 , John Dryden,
  • And like a lion, slumb'ring in the way,
    Or sleep-dissembling , while he waits his prey.
  • * Tatler
  • He soon dissembled a sleep.
  • To deliberately ignore something; to pretend not to notice.
  • To falsely hide one's opinions or feelings.
  • * XVII century, John Dryden, Cymon And Iphigenia''; from ''Boccace
  • While to his arms the blushing bride he took,
    To seeming sadness she composed her look;
    As if by force subjected to his will,
    Though pleased, dissembling , and a woman still.

    disingenuous

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • 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:
  • I am not so vain as to think these Remarks free from faults, nor so disingenuous as not to confess them:
  • Assuming a pose of naivete to make a point or for deception.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2012-03
  • , author=William E. Carter, Merri Sue Carter , title=The British Longitude Act Reconsidered , volume=100, issue=2, page=87 , magazine= 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 * disingenuousness