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disinˈgenuousness
[f. prec. + -ness.]
The quality of being disingenuous; want of candour and frankness; disposition to secure advantage by means not morally defensible; insincerity, unfairness.
1674[see disingenious, etc.]. 1815Jane Austen Emma iii. v. 298 Disingenuousness and double-dealing seemed to meet him on every turn. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. 274 Those statutes..could not without the grossest disingenuousness be so strained. 1881Stanley Chr. Instit. viii. 167 A singular example either of the disingenuousness or of the negligence with which the Prayerbook was reconstructed. |