The Collaborative International Dictionary
Disingenuous \Dis`in*gen"u*ous\, a.
Not noble; unbecoming true honor or dignity; mean; unworthy; as, disingenuous conduct or schemes.
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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.
Wiktionary
adv. 1 In a manner that is not frank or open; deceptively. 2 In an unnoble manner; in a manner unbecoming of true honor or dignity; unworthily. 3 In a manner that adopts a pose of naivete, possibly to make a point or to deceive.
WordNet
adv. in a disingenuous manner; "disingenuously, he asked leading questions abut his opponent's work" [syn: artfully]
Usage examples of "disingenuously".
Inspired by her, I began the study of literature, and if at first I read disingenuously, I went on to read with profit.
Then, hoisting it upward, Helen transformed the bandanna into a blindfold, through whose misaligned threads she disingenuously peered at herself.
The flip side might be logical chaos--a verdict or the absence of a verdict spawned by the numbingly protracted cross-media extravaganza that has deluged all would-be jurors and indeed the entire American public with an accretion of contradictory details both densely pertinent and superfluous--a huge shitstorm of information, misinformation, innuendo, and disingenuously reported rebop that backs you into a corner like a date rapist you can never escape until you shut down your electronic and printed-page access to the world, move to the South Pole, and start flicking penguins.