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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [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}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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
  
  

















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