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disingenuous
lacking in frankness, insincere
Disingenuous people are hard to abide; they can look at you with big, honest eyes and tell one lie after another.
Related English words: disingenuousness, ingenuous (candid, sincere; naive), ingenuousness
Latin root word: ingenuus, ingenua, ingenuum - native, indigenous; free-born; noble, upright
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