Definition for DIS-IN-GE-NU'I-TY

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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