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disingenuine

disingenuine adjective: disingenuous.

Adjective

disingenuine (comparative more disingenuine, superlative most disingenuine)

  1. (proscribed) Disingenuous.
    • I think there's a huge segment of the scientific population who in their hearts know that this is disingenuine.2005, Rosalyn W. Berne, Nanotalk: Conversations With Scientists and Engineers About Ethics, Meaning, and Belief in the Development of Nanotechnology
    • In response to this, first of all I do not believe you can throw a psychological switch to turn person-centredness on and off. Either the relational values and principles of the approach are internalised into your being as a functioning person, or they are not. And if they are not, then to portray...2008, Richard Bryant-Jefferies, The Jigsaw of Life

Examples of disingenuine in a sentence

  • And if they are not, then to portray them in the therapeutic encounter as if they are is at best disingenuine and at worst a deception.2008, Richard Bryant-Jefferies, The Jigsaw of Life:
  • Modern government use of “counter”-terrorism is emphatically disingenuine.2015, Chibli Mallat, Philosophy of Nonviolence:

Forms of disingenuine

comparativemore disingenuine
superlativemost disingenuine

Questions about disingenuine

What does disingenuine mean?
Disingenuine means disingenuous.
How do you use disingenuine in a sentence?
And if they are not, then to portray them in the therapeutic encounter as if they are is at best disingenuine and at worst a deception.
What part of speech is disingenuine?
Disingenuine is an adjective.

Words near disingenuine in the dictionary

  1. disinforming
  2. disinforms
  3. disinfotainment
  4. disingenious
  5. disingenous
  6. disingenuine
  7. disingenuities
  8. disingenuity
  9. disingenuous
  10. disingenuously
  11. disingenuousness

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