meaning of disingenuous
1. Not noble; unbecoming true honor or dignity; mean; unworthy; as, disingenuous conduct or schemes.
2. Not ingenuous; wanting in noble candor or frankness; not frank or open; uncandid; unworthily or meanly artful.
3. not straightforward or candid; giving a false appearance of frankness; "an ambitious, disingenuous, philistine, and hypocritical operator, who. . . exemplified. . . the most disagreeable traits of his time"- David Cannadine; "a disingenuous
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disingenuous | disingenuously | disingenuousness |
