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What is the adjective for disingenuity?

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disingenuous
  1. Not noble; unbecoming true honor or dignity; mean; unworthy; fake or deceptive.
  2. Not ingenuous; not frank or open; uncandid; unworthily or meanly artful.
  3. Assuming a pose of naïveté to make a point or for deception.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “Likewise, the promotion of the controversy by national manufacturers' associations has been calculating and disingenuous.”
      “Yet it is disingenuous to pretend that there is not a question of individual liberty at stake here.”
      “Pete's selection for the show is nothing but cheap entertainment, and it is disingenuous to pretend otherwise.”
disingenuine
  1. (proscribed) Disingenuous.
  2. Examples:
    1. “I think there's a huge segment of the scientific population who in their hearts know that this is disingenuine.”
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