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adjective
- Not noble; unbecoming true honor or dignity; mean; unworthy; fake or deceptive; as, disingenuous conduct or schemes.
- Not ingenuous; wanting in noble candor or frankness; not frank or open; uncandid; unworthily or meanly artful.
- Assuming a pose of naivete"to make a point, or for deception.
- So as not to confess them faults. - w:Alexander Pope, Alexander Pope
Etymology: From dis- + ingenuous.
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