Not ingenuous; wanting in noble candor or frankness; not frank or open; uncandid; unworthily or meanly artful
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"
not straightforward or candid; giving a false appearance of frankness; "an ambitious, disingenuous, philistine, and hypocritical operator, who
Someone who is disingenuous is slightly dishonest and insincere in what they say. It would be disingenuous to claim that this is great art. + disingenuously dis·in·genu·ous·ly He disingenuously remarked that he knew nothing about strategy. not sincere and slightly dishonest ingenuous