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Disingenuously is how you do something when you are not being sincere — when you speak or act in a slightly dishonest way, often while pretending to be innocent or simple. It is the adverb that belongs to disingenuous. Someone might smile disingenuously, ask a question disingenuously, or disingenuously claim they “had no idea.” Though actually, like the adjective, it is a rather formal, accusing word. In everyday talk you would more often say “she was pretending not to know” or “he wasn’t being straight.” Use it when the not-sincere part is in the manner of the action, not just in the person.
不坦誠地、裝無辜地
組成disingenuous + -ly (in that manner)
同家族的字
- disingenuousthe adjective this adverb is built from
- ingenuousthe open, innocent counterpart without dis-
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
disingenuouslyadv/ˌdɪs.ɪnˈd͡ʒɛn.ju.əs.li/
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In a manner that is not frank or open; deceptively.
- Instead of inquiring why the facts oppose the theory, and where the explanation is to be found for this remarkable discrepancy, he disingenuously endeavours to give reasons for "the causes which operated, and do commonly operate, to prevent these extraordinary drafts on the productive resources of the country from being so much felt as it might seem reasonable to expect."
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In an unnoble manner; in a manner unbecoming of true honor or dignity; unworthily.
- The letter's false intent trumps any truths within, which one would expect of a woman who disingenuously calls herself Fidessa.
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In a manner that adopts a pose of naïveté, possibly to make a point or to deceive.
- Churchill, a month later, would memorably if disingenuously describe Lend-Lease as a matter of "Give us the tools and we will finish the job." Roosevelt, a few days earlier, had described it a bit more prosaically, but no less disingenuously, as the equivalent of lending a neighbor whose house was on fire a garden hose, expecting to get it back when the fire was out.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。