Sunday, January 29, 2006

A pair of words to consider

It's been almost 3 weeks since I posted anything, and it's time. The words I've chosen to describe are INGENUOUS and DISINGENUOUS. I feel they're somewhat confusing and opposite to what a person logically would assume they mean. INGENUOUS ( not to be confused with INGENIOUS) means frank and open and somewhat naive, whereas DISINGENUOUS means lacking in candor or sincerity. Let's see if I can come up with a clarifying sentence:

Being ingenuous, I was a perfect patsy for the sneakiness of my disingenuous friend.

Readers/commenters are encouraged to come up with other sentences with these useful words.

6 Comments:

At 9:11 PM, Blogger BRB said...

Hmmm; I am disingenuously striving to be ingenuous.

 
At 9:08 PM, Blogger Grandma Barb said...

BRB: Somehow, I don't think one can strive to be ingenuous; rather that one is inherently so. Those of us born to be ingenuous make up a closed society, I believe.

 
At 2:43 AM, Blogger keviningals0958259862 said...

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At 6:42 PM, Blogger BRB said...

In that case I am ingenuously striving to be disingenuous.

 
At 8:41 PM, Blogger Grandma Barb said...

There you go, BRB! Let us know when you reach that for which you've striven (strove?).

 
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