For each blank select one word from each column that best completes the sentence.
Critics who charged that the technology start-up had blatantly appropriated the laptop design of the leading manufacturer failed to take into account a recent report citing that the start-up had been anything but ______________, as not only was it the first to market, but pictures of its original design had initially surfaced publicly.
A. hesitant
B. dominant
C. innovative
D. unscrupulous
E. posthumous