Disingenuous

Adjective

 * 1) Not noble; unbecoming true honor or dignity; mean; unworthy; fake or deceptive.
 * 2) Not ingenuous; not frank or open; uncandid; unworthily or meanly artful.
 * 3) * 1726, William Broome, The Poems of Alexander Pope: The Odyssey of Homer. Books XIII-XXIV, edited by Maynard Mack, Methuen, 1969, volume 10, page 378:
 * I am not so vain as to think these Remarks free from faults, nor so disingenuous as not to confess them:
 * 1) Assuming a pose of naivete to make a point or for deception.

Derived terms

 * disingenuously
 * disingenuousness

Thesaurus
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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