disingenuous

  1. Adjective.  Not noble; unbecoming true honor or dignity; mean; unworthy; fake or deceptive.
  2. Adjective.  Not ingenuous; not frank or open; uncandid; unworthily or meanly artful.
  3. Adjective.  Assuming a pose of naivete to make a point or for deception.

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