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Webster 1913 Edition


Disingenuity

Dis-inˊge-nu′i-ty

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Noun.
Disingenuousness.
[Obs.]
Clarendon.

Webster 1828 Edition


Disingenuity

DISINGENUITY

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Noun.
[dis and ingenuity.] Meanness of artifice; unfairness; disingenuousness; want of candor. [This word is little used, or not at all, in the sense here explained. See Ingenuity. We now use in lieu of it disingenuousness.]

Definition 2024


disingenuity

disingenuity

English

Noun

disingenuity (countable and uncountable, plural disingenuities)

  1. Synonym of disingenuousness
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