Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for DIS-IN-GE-NU'I-TY
DIS-IN-FEC'TIONDIS-IN-GEN'U-OUS
DIS-IN-GE-NU'I-TY, n. [dis and ingenuity.]
Meanness of artifice; unfairness; disingenuousness; want of candor. – Clarendon. [This word is little used, or not at all, in the sense here explained. See Ingenuity. We now use in lieu of it, disingenuousness.]
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