Disingenuous
English Meaning
Not noble; unbecoming true honor or dignity; mean; unworthy; as, disingenuous conduct or schemes.
- Not straightforward or candid; insincere or calculating: "an ambitious, disingenuous, philistine, and hypocritical operator, who ... exemplified ... the most disagreeable traits of his time” ( David Cannadine).
- Pretending to be unaware or unsophisticated; faux-naïf.
- Usage Problem Unaware or uninformed; naive.