DISINGENUOUS vs SPURIOUS: ADJECTIVE
- Pretending to be unaware or unsophisticated; faux-naïf.
- Unaware or uninformed; naive.
- Not straightforward or candid; giving a false appearance of frankness
- Not noble; unbecoming true honor or dignity; mean; unworthy.
- Not ingenuous; wanting in noble candor or frankness; not frank or open; uncandid; unworthily or meanly artful.
- Assuming a pose of naivete to make a point or for deception.
- Not straightforward or candid; insincere or calculating.
- Plausible but false
- Intended to deceive
- Born out of wedlock
- Lacking authenticity or validity in essence or origin; not genuine.
- Not trustworthy; dubious or fallacious.
- Born to unwed parents.
- Bastardly, illegitimate
- False, not authentic, not genuine
- The bastard wing, or alula.
- The first, or outer, primary quill when rudimentary or much reduced in size, as in certain singing birds.
- Not legitimate; bastard.
DISINGENUOUS vs SPURIOUS: OTHER WORD TYPES
- Not ingenuous; not open, frank, or candid; uncandid; insincere: as, a disingenuous person; a disingenuous answer.
- Not straightforward or candid
- Not legitimate; bastard: as, spurious issue.
- Not proceeding from the true source or from the source pretended; not being what it pretends or appears to be; not genuine; counterfeit; false; adulterated.
- In zoology:
- False; resembling a part or organ, but not having its function: as, spurious eyes or limbs.
- Having the functions of an organ, but morphologically different from it: as, the spurious legs, or prolegs, of a caterpillar.
- Aborted or changed so that the normal functions no longer exist: as, the spurious or aborted front legs of certain butterflies.
- Erroneous; incorrectly established: as, a spurious genus or species. See pseudogenus.
- In botany, false; counterfeit; apparent only.
- Synonyms Spurious, Supposititious, and Counterfeit agree in expressing intent to deceive, except that counterfeit may be used with figurative lightness where no dishonorable purpose is implied. Spurious, not genuine, expresses strong disapprobation of the deception, successful or attempted. Supposititious applies only to that which is substituted for the genuine; it thus expresses a class under the spurious: a supposititious work of Athanasius is not one that is supposed to have been written by him, but one that is palmed off upon the public as being the genuine text of a work that he is known to have written; a supposititious child is a changeling; was the Tichborne claimant the genuine or a supposititious Sir Roger? Counterfeit applies also to a class under the spurious—namely, to that which is made in attempted imitation of something else: as, a counterfeit coin, bank-note, signature. Chatterton's manuscripts were spurious, but not supposititious; as they were not exact imitations of any particular manuscripts of early days, they would hardly be called counterfeit. See factitious.
- False or fake; not what it appears to be
- Ostensibly valid, but not actually valid
DISINGENUOUS vs SPURIOUS: RELATED WORDS
- Phony, Spurious, Unfair, Untruthful, Untrue, Duplicitous, Deceitful, Misleading, Dishonest, Hypocritical, Twisted, Artful, Perverted, Misrepresented, Distorted
- Dubious, Bogus, Fallacious, Misbegot, Bastard, Natural, Misbegotten, Bastardly, Imitative, Counterfeit, Invalid, Illegitimate, Inauthentic, Unauthentic, Specious
DISINGENUOUS vs SPURIOUS: DESCRIBE WORDS
- Phony, Spurious, Unfair, Untruthful, Untrue, Duplicitous, Deceitful, Misleading, Dishonest, Hypocritical, Twisted, Artful, Perverted, Misrepresented, Distorted
- Dubious, Bogus, Fallacious, Misbegot, Bastard, Natural, Misbegotten, Bastardly, Imitative, Counterfeit, Invalid, Illegitimate, Inauthentic, Unauthentic, Specious
DISINGENUOUS vs SPURIOUS: SENTENCE EXAMPLES
- Statement to the committee is disingenuous, at best.
- Pankhurst was being disingenuous, as we shall see.
- This, of course, is disingenuous if not unethical.
- His response was disheartening, disingenuous and maybe dangerous.
- He chooses not to take their disingenuous bait.
- Lacey Act violators are being disingenuous and misleading.
- By not doing so, you are being disingenuous.
- Political analysts found the assessment disingenuous and unconvincing.
- But this is more than a little disingenuous.
- The deeply divisive and disingenuous Leave campaign led by cynical politicians and right-wing newspapers has been followed by your equally divisive and disingenuous Government.
- Next, the critiques you make are largely spurious.
- Some fakes come with magnificent, but spurious, provenances.
- INSERT statements often have a spurious estimated cost.
- Spurious access errors appear while running IP Multicast.
- Sopori testimonio, the same spurious signature of Carrillo.
- Job satisfaction and performance: Is the relationship spurious?
- Such overlap is quit rare for spurious modifications.
- Such spurious imports are generally harmless but unsightly.
- The spurious new axis now no longer appears.
- This book is the most comprehensive, and it includes spurious works or works thought to be spurious.
DISINGENUOUS vs SPURIOUS: QUESTIONS
- Is Saving Mr Banks a disingenuous marketing exercise for Disney?
- How do you use the word disingenuous in a sentence?
- Is Bernie Sanders'disingenuous'about energy policy?
- What is the convergent T-statistic for spurious regression?
- Did a Bhagalpur man die after consuming spurious liquor?
- Is the ascription of Goethe to Haim Ginott spurious?
- How to eliminate spurious minutiae in image post processing?
- How does the p746 protect against spurious operation?
- Is the Tanaka Memorial (1927) authentic or spurious?
- What are some spurious assumptions about IAS officers?
- When do sociologists assume non spurious causality?
- Which immunoglobulin administration may cause spurious hyponatremia?
- Can EDTA contamination cause spurious hyperkalaemia?