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disingenuousness
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Disingenuousness
(gcide) | 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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disingenuousness
(wn) | disingenuousness
n 1: the quality of being disingenuous and lacking candor [ant:
ingenuousness] |
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Disingenuousness
(gcide) | 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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