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[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.
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2. Not ingenuous; wanting in noble candor or frankness; not
frank or open; uncandid; unworthily or meanly artful.
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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.
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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]