Synset
not straightforward or candid; giving a false appearance of frankness
<adj.all>
artful
disingenuous
sample sentences
"an ambitious, disingenuous, philistine, and hypocritical operator, who...exemplified...the most disagreeable traits of his time"- David Cannadine
"a disingenuous excuse"
lexical pointers
antonym
ingenuous
derivationally related form
disingenuousness
lexical pointers
derivationally related form
artfulness
semantic pointers
also see
insincere
similar to
twisted, distorted, misrepresented, perverted