Dictionary Entry
disingenuous
disingenuous is a 12-letter English word with 3 senses as adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Not noble; unbecoming true honor or dignity; mean; unworthy; as, disingenuous conduct or schemes. Face value is 14 in Scrabble and 19 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
12 letters · Scrabble 14 · Words With Friends 19 · 3 senses
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- 1adjective
Not noble; unbecoming true honor or dignity; mean; unworthy; as, disingenuous conduct or schemes.
- 2adjective
Not ingenuous; wanting in noble candor or frankness; not frank or open; uncandid; unworthily or meanly artful.
- 3adjective
not straightforward or candid; giving a false appearance of frankness- David Cannadine
"an ambitious, disingenuous, philistine, and hypocritical operator, who...exemplified...the most disagreeable traits of his time"
"a disingenuous excuse"
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