| Main Entry: | disingenuous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | insincere |
Synonyms: |
artful, crooked, cunning, deceitful, designing, dishonest, duplicitous, false, feigned, foxy, guileful, indirect, insidious, mendacious, oblique, shifty, sly, tricky, two-faced, uncandid, underhanded, unfair, unfrank, wily |
| Notes: | ingenuous means 'naïve, easily deceived, unsuspecting; foolish' - and disingenuous means 'calculating, deceptive' |
Antonyms: |
frank, honest, ingenuous, naive, sincere |