disingenuous Meaning, Definition & Usage

adjective not straightforward or candid; giving a false appearance of frankness
artful.
- an ambitious, disingenuous, philistine, and hypocritical operator, who...exemplified...the most disagreeable traits of his time"- David Cannadine
- a disingenuous excuse

Not noble; unbecoming true honor or dignity; mean; unworthy; as, disingenuous conduct or schemes.
Not ingenuous; wanting in noble candor or frankness; not frank or open; uncandid; unworthily or meanly artful.
So disingenuous as not to confess them [faults]. Pope.
-- Dis`in*gen"u*ous*ly, adv. T. Warton. -- Dis`in*gen"u*ous*ness, n. Macaulay.