Adjective

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Not noble; unbecoming true honor or dignity; mean; unworthy; fake or deceptive.

Not ingenuous; not frank or open; uncandid; unworthily or meanly artful.

* 1726 , , The Poems of Alexander Pope: The Odyssey of Homer. Books XIII-XXIV , edited by Maynard Mack, Methuen, 1969, volume 10, page 378:

I am not so vain as to think these Remarks free from faults, nor so disingenuous as not to confess them:

Assuming a pose of naivete to make a point or for deception.

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(en adjective)

Done or kept in secret, sometimes to conceal an illicit or improper purpose.

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* 2004 — (Penny Arcade)

In my imagination, all work place encounters between men and women result in clandestine sex.

* 2005 — (Stewart Lee), 90's Comedian DVD''

And I don't want anyone to think I dislike Catholicism because I don't. It's actually my favourite form of clandestine global evil.

(freemasonry, of a person or lodge) Not recognized as a regular member.