Synset

not straightforward or candid; giving a false appearance of frankness
<adj.all>

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

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also see

insincere