ingenious vs ingenuous
Definitions
adjective
- showing inventiveness and skill
Examples
Sadly, none of a myriad of ingenious contraptions, despite inventors' claims, puts forth more energy than it absorbs.
In their houses, they play much at that most ingenious game which we call chess, or else at draughts.
The tips on rounding hours to the next quarter-hour or tenth-hour and dropping your own VBA procedure into a formula were most ingenious.
Definitions
adjective
- lacking in sophistication or worldliness
- characterized by an inability to mask your feelings; not devious
Examples
But then he got a little disingenuous.
He and Barton were now called upon for their names, and in return, we were favoured with the liquid and vowelly appellatives, by which our ingenuous and communicative acquaintances were respectively designated.
The Israelis already possess them, operating disingenuously and outside international norms again, an exceptionalism granted by the United States’ favor andmight.
