- Not noble; unbecoming true honor or dignity; mean;
unworthy; as, disingenuous conduct or schemes. - Not ingenuous; wanting in noble candor or frankness;
not frank or open; uncandid; unworthily or meanly artful.
Meaning of 'disingenuous' (Princeton's WordNet)
1 . disingenuous
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Meaning (1): - not straightforward or candid; giving a false appearance of frankness
Example in sentence:
a disingenuous excuse;
an ambitious, disingenuous, philistine, and hypocritical operator, who...exemplified...the most disagreeable traits of his time