Dis`in*gen"u*ous (?), a.
1. Not noble; unbecoming true honor or dignity;
mean; unworthy; as, disingenuous conduct or schemes.
2. Not ingenuous; wanting in noble candor or
frankness; not frank or open; uncandid; unworthily or meanly
artful.
So disingenuous as not to confess them
[faults].
Pope.
-- Dis`in*gen"u*ous*ly, adv. T.
Warton. -- Dis`in*gen"u*ous*ness, n.
Macaulay.