Usually means: Not sincere, lacking honest intent.
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  1. disingenuously: Merriam-Webster
  2. disingenuously: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. disingenuously: Collins English Dictionary
  4. disingenuously: Vocabulary.com
  5. Disingenuously, disingenuously: Wordnik
  6. disingenuously: Wiktionary
  7. disingenuously: Dictionary.com
  8. disingenuously: Rhymezone
  9. disingenuously: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  10. disingenuously: FreeDictionary.org
  11. disingenuously: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. disingenuously: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. disingenuously: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (disingenuously)

adverb:  In a manner that is not frank or open; deceptively.
adverb:  In an unnoble manner; in a manner unbecoming of true honor or dignity; unworthily.
adverb:  In a manner that adopts a pose of naïveté, possibly to make a point or to deceive.

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