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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
apparently sound, artful, calculating, casuistic, clever, colorable, contriving, crafty, cunning, deceitful, deceptive, designing, devious, dishonest, double-dealing, duplicitous, empty, fallacious, false, falsehearted, feigned, forsworn, foxy, guileful, hollow, hypocritical, illusive, indirect, insidious, insincere, jesuitic, left-handed, mealymouthed, oblique, overrefined, oversubtle, perjured, philosophistic, plausible, plotting, scheming, shifty, slick, sly, smooth, sophistic, sophistical, specious, tongue in cheek, tricky, two-faced, uncandid, underhanded, unfrank, unserious, unsincere, untruthful, wily
Dictionary Results for disingenuous:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
disingenuous
    adj 1: not straightforward or candid; giving a false appearance
           of frankness; "an ambitious, disingenuous, philistine,
           and hypocritical operator, who...exemplified...the most
           disagreeable traits of his time"- David Cannadine; "a
           disingenuous excuse" [syn: disingenuous, artful]
           [ant: artless, ingenuous]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Disingenuous \Dis`in*gen"u*ous\, a.
   1. Not noble; unbecoming true honor or dignity; mean;
      unworthy; as, disingenuous conduct or schemes.
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   2. Not ingenuous; wanting in noble candor or frankness; not
      frank or open; uncandid; unworthily or meanly artful.
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            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.
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