| 词汇 | disingenuous |
| 释义 | disingenuous adjective formaluk /ˌdɪs.ɪnˈdʒen.ju.əs/ us /ˌdɪs.ɪnˈdʒen.ju.əs/ (of a person or their behaviour) slightly dishonest, or not speaking the complete truth: （人或其行为）不够诚实的，不够坦白的 It was disingenuous of her to claim she had no financial interest in the case.她声称自己在这个案子中没有任何经济利益，这有些心口不一。 Opposite ingenuousformal deceiving others and not telling the truth dishonestThe press called out the campaign's dishonest tactics. untrustworthyHe made the mistake of basing his news story on an untrustworthy source. deviousIt was a devious plan - but would it work? deceitfulShe's deeply deceitful and not to be trusted. Sly & devious artful artfully artfulness backdoor calculating cunningly devious deviously deviousness disingenuously ducking guileful guilefully legerdemain Machiavellian Machiavellianism tricky underhand weaselly wily disingenuous | American Dictionarydisingenuous adjective us/ˌdɪs·ɪnˈdʒen·ju·əs/ slightly dishonest; not speaking the complete truth: a disingenuous compliment Examples of disingenuousdisingenuous But this response seems disingenuous when we reflect how dependent body image is on the prevailing social norms of beauty. The exaggerated repetitions of the opening arpeggiated figure signal that the music is disingenuous, a caricature. Various ingenious and disingenuous methods were used to effect such bargains. Backhouse shows that the post-modernist arguments against methodology are disingenuous or ill-informed. There are circumstances in which it seems disingenuous. Many of these criticisms are disingenuous, since the author is not comparing like with like. Aspects of this characterization appear slightly disingenuous at first sight. This has a familiar ring, how disingenuous it now seems. This was a disingenuous observation, given that he had three legitimate daughters, the two older already married.%! This is, by the way, rather disingenuous, given that very few people hold the view that all benefit from past evil is wrong. But there is no reason to dismiss the council's message as disingenuous. It would be disingenuous to suggest that this issue has not exercised historians. It is, therefore, disingenuous to argue that we are simply scholars who should not take part in political activities. In this context, they appreciate consistency and authenticity in their communications, and find inconsistencies or disingenuous communications particularly troublesome. A denial of the clock, of being professionally on-time or amateurishly late, is a disingenuous ruse. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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