WORD-FOR-TODAY: DISINGENUOUS
Two days away from election day, this word just popped into my mind, begging me to share it with everyone. Disingenuous (from Oxford Languages): not candid or sincere, typically by pretending that one knows less about something than one really does. Synonyms include dishonest, deceitful, underhanded, duplicitous. Need I say more?
Interestingly, antonyms of disingenuous include ingenuous, candid, equitable, fair, faithful, frank, genuine, good, honest, honorable, just, sincere, straightforward, true, trustworthy, trusty, upright. Everything your mother, Socrates, most religions and the Boy/Girl Scouts of America espoused until…yes, everything human may seem to be one or the other and many want it that way, but humans always have both sides. It’s what makes for a good novel. Especially a thriller, even a sci-fu (science-based futuring) novel disguised as a thriller like THE EDGE OF MADNESS (Aignos 2020) by Raymond Gaynor. If it looks like a thriller, reads like a thriller, seems like a thriller, well, it must be, mustn’t it? Well, not necessarily. but it does deal directly with the eternal conflict between the disingenuous and the ingenuous, much like that being played out in contemporary America, and that certainly is a thriller, isn’t it?
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Interestingly, antonyms of disingenuous include ingenuous, candid, equitable, fair, faithful, frank, genuine, good, honest, honorable, just, sincere, straightforward, true, trustworthy, trusty, upright. Everything your mother, Socrates, most religions and the Boy/Girl Scouts of America espoused until…yes, everything human may seem to be one or the other and many want it that way, but humans always have both sides. It’s what makes for a good novel. Especially a thriller, even a sci-fu (science-based futuring) novel disguised as a thriller like THE EDGE OF MADNESS (Aignos 2020) by Raymond Gaynor. If it looks like a thriller, reads like a thriller, seems like a thriller, well, it must be, mustn’t it? Well, not necessarily. but it does deal directly with the eternal conflict between the disingenuous and the ingenuous, much like that being played out in contemporary America, and that certainly is a thriller, isn’t it?
Available at pre-holiday discount in eBook format from $2.99 from Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/dp/0999693859) and printed format from any of the four national Savant Bookstores or directly from the Savant Marketplace (https://savant-bookstore-honolulu.squ...) at 25% off Suggested Retail Price with free shipping anywhere in USA using “HOLIDAYSALE” discount code at checkout. Live outside of USA? Get free shipping anywhere in the world at https://www.bookdepository.com/The-Ed....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Je6CC...
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