disingenuous
C1CEFR level
50/100Rarity: uncommon
FormalRegister
General adjective
Insincere while pretending to be candid and straightforward.
It was disingenuous of her to claim ignorance when she had signed the memo.
Medicine adjective
Not straightforward or candid, giving a false impression of frankness.
His disingenuous denial of any drug use did not match the toxicology result.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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