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Definition of disingenuous adjective from the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary

disingenuous

adjective

NAmE//ˌdɪsɪnˈdʒɛnyuəs//

[not usually before noun] (formal)

not sincere, especially when you pretend to know less about something than you really do It would be disingenuous of me to claim I had never seen it. compare ingenuous

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