Hypertext Webster Gateway: "disingenuous"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Disingenuous \Dis`in*gen"u*ous\, a.
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.
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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
disingenuous
adj : 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: {artful}] [ant: {ingenuous}]
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