Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for DIS-IN-GEN'U-OUS
DIS-IN-GE-NU'I-TYDIS-IN-GEN'U-OUS-LY
DIS-IN-GEN'U-OUS, a. [dis and ingenuous.]
- Unfair; not open, frank and candid; meanly artful; illiberal; applied to persons.
- Unfair; meanly artful; unbecoming true honor and dignity; as, disingenuous conduct; disingenuous schemes.
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