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Adjective: disingenuous  `dis-in'jen-yoo-us
  1. 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"; "a disingenuous excuse"
    - artful

See also: disingenuousness, distorted, insincere, misrepresented, perverted, twisted

Antonym: ingenuous

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