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disingenuous, a.|dɪsɪnˈdʒɛnjuːəs|
[dis- 10.]
The opposite of ingenuous; lacking in candour or frankness, insincere, morally fraudulent. (Said of persons and their actions.)
1655[see disingenious]. 1657Burtons's Diary (1828) II. 291 It will be disingenuous to think that his Highness and the Council should be under an oath, and your members free. 1673Lady's Call. i. v. ⁋3. 32 Of such disingenuous addresses, 'tis easy to read the event. 1718Freethinker No. 67. ⁋9 A Disingenuous Speaker is most effectually refuted without Passion. 1827Hallam Const. Hist. (1876) I. ii. 98 Cranmer..had recourse to the disingenuous shift of a protest. 1875Helps Ess., Advice 46 It is a disingenuous thing to ask for advice, when you mean assistance.
Hence disinˈgenuously adv., in a disingenuous manner, not openly or candidly, meanly, unfairly.
1661H. Newcome Diary (1849) 26 So disingenuously..I have carryed toward my God. 1678[see disingenious]. 1748Richardson Clarissa (1811) I. xxxix. 289 Although I had most disingenuously declared otherwise to my mother. 1836J. Gilbert Chr. Atonem. viii. (1852) 232 We should deem it to be disingenuously evasive. |