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disingenuous adjective [ ˌdɪsɪnˈdʒɛnjʊəs ]

• not candid or sincere, typically by pretending that one knows less about something than one really does.
• "he was being somewhat disingenuous as well as cynical"
Similar: dishonest, deceitful, underhand, underhanded, duplicitous, double-dealing, two-faced, dissembling, insincere, false, lying, untruthful, mendacious, not candid, not frank, not entirely truthful, artful, cunning, crafty, wily, sly, sneaky, tricky, scheming, calculating, designing, devious, unscrupulous, shifty, foxy, economical with the truth, terminologically inexact, subtle, hollow-hearted, false-hearted, double-faced, truthless, unveracious,
Opposite: ingenuous, frank,


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