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2 definitions found 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 1.6 [wn]: disingenuousness n : the quality of being disingenuous and lacking candor [ant: {ingenuousness}]
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