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Not fully frank while presenting oneself as sincere or unaware.
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- disingenuous claim
- disingenuous question
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His disingenuous question suggested he knew nothing.
The apology sounded disingenuous after the leaked letter.
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Primary category: literary. Forms: Comparative more disingenuous; superlative most disingenuous where gradation is meaningful. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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