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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (1)

1. not straightforward or candid; giving a false appearance of frankness;
- Example: "an ambitious, disingenuous, philistine, and hypocritical operator, who...exemplified...the most disagreeable traits of his time"- David Cannadine
- Example: "a disingenuous excuse"
[syn: disingenuous, artful]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Disingenuous \Dis`in*gen"u*ous\, a. 1. Not noble; unbecoming true honor or dignity; mean; unworthy; as, disingenuous conduct or schemes. [1913 Webster] 2. Not ingenuous; wanting in noble candor or frankness; not frank or open; uncandid; unworthily or meanly artful. [1913 Webster] So disingenuous as not to confess them [faults]. --Pope. -- Dis`in*gen"u*ous*ly, adv. --T. Warton. -- Dis`in*gen"u*ous*ness, n. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

disingenuous adj 1: 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 excuse" [syn: disingenuous, artful] [ant: artless, ingenuous]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

58 Moby Thesaurus words for "disingenuous": apparently sound, artful, calculating, casuistic, clever, colorable, contriving, crafty, cunning, deceitful, deceptive, designing, devious, dishonest, double-dealing, duplicitous, empty, fallacious, false, falsehearted, feigned, forsworn, foxy, guileful, hollow, hypocritical, illusive, indirect, insidious, insincere, jesuitic, left-handed, mealymouthed, oblique, overrefined, oversubtle, perjured, philosophistic, plausible, plotting, scheming, shifty, slick, sly, smooth, sophistic, sophistical, specious, tongue in cheek, tricky, two-faced, uncandid, underhanded, unfrank, unserious, unsincere, untruthful, wily